Billowy

Quick meaning: Billowy is an adjective meaning Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Meaning

Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Example Sentences

[…] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.

He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.

This allows the muscular man to order a suit whose jacket fits him in the chest and shoulders and is not billowy through the waist and hips; and whose trousers fit him in the waist but whose legs are not reminiscent of harem pants.

Word Forms

• billowier
• billowiest

Synonyms for billowy

Depending on context, synonyms include surging, billowing, stormy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surging, stormy, drowse, surgy, swelly, overswollen.

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