What does gusty mean?
Gusty means Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous..
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/ˈɡʌs.ti/ · adjective
Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous..
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
“I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.
Use gusty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gusty means Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous..
Common synonyms include blusterous, blustery, blustering, stormy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
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