Windless

Quick meaning: Windless is an adjective meaning Devoid of wind; calm.

Meaning

Devoid of wind; calm.

More Meanings

1. Out of breath.
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of windlass.

Example Sentences

Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods, / Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness: […]

Then came others one after another, windless with running, crying out and saying, that all was gone: and that every where the souldiers goods were rifled, ransacked and carried clean away.

[B]eing almost windles, by running after ſenſuall pleaſures too feircely, they [the gentry] are glad (for keeping them-ſelves in breath ſo long as they can) to fal to Ferret-hunting, yͭ is to say, to take vp commodities.

[W]hen the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth’s excrement. But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.

Word Forms

• windlesses

Synonyms for windless

Depending on context, synonyms include calm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include calm, breathless, gustless, breezeless, stormless, becalmed.

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