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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill..
The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.
The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g-forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.
Uncertainly, he stepped back, bumping into the short skirt of the seawall. He stumbled and pinwheeled his arms for balance.
The laws of physics and chemistry transform a meadow of fine powder into a wreckage of icy chunks. Saugstad’s pinwheeling body would freeze into whatever position it was in the moment the snow stopped.
Use pinwheel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pinwheel means An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill..
Common synonyms include swirl, aeonium haworthii.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.
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