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All zephyr synonyms

zeph·yr
Z z

noun zephyr

  • breath — Your breath is the air that you let out through your mouth when you breathe. If someone has bad breath, their breath smells unpleasant.
  • breeze — A breeze is a gentle wind.
  • wind — the act of winding.
  • blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
  • draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • heavens — the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
  • ozone — a form of oxygen, O 3 , with a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, produced when an electric spark or ultraviolet light is passed through air or oxygen. It is found in the atmosphere in minute quantities, especially after a thunderstorm, is a powerful oxidizing agent, and is thus biologically corrosive. In the upper atmosphere, it absorbs ultraviolet rays, thereby preventing them from reaching the surface of the earth. It is used for bleaching, sterilizing water, etc.
  • puff — a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
  • sky — the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • troposphere — the lowest layer of the atmosphere, 6 miles (10 km) high in some areas and as much as 12 miles (20 km) high in others, within which there is a steady drop in temperature with increasing altitude and within which nearly all cloud formations occur and weather conditions manifest themselves.
  • ventilation — the act of ventilating.
  • waft — to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
  • whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
  • sigh — to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
  • smell — to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
  • aroma — An aroma is a strong, pleasant smell.
  • flatus — intestinal gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the intestines and composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and varying amounts of methane.
  • flutter — to wave, flap, or toss about: Banners fluttered in the breeze.
  • gust — Archaic. flavor or taste.
  • odor — the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell: to have an unpleasant odor.
  • odour — the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell: to have an unpleasant odor.
  • vapour — a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
  • vapor — a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
  • air — Air is the mixture of gases which forms the Earth's atmosphere and which we breathe.
  • current — A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.
  • airflow — The airflow around an object or vehicle is the way that the air flows around it.
  • flurry — a light, brief shower of snow.
  • cyclone — A cyclone is a violent tropical storm in which the air goes round and round.
  • gale — Zona [zoh-nuh] /ˈzoʊ nə/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
  • blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
  • chinook — a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
  • draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • tempest — a comedy (1611) by Shakespeare.
  • typhoon — a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.
  • wafting — to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
  • whirlwind — any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea, as a dust devil, tornado, or waterspout.
  • whisk — to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
  • firmament — the vault of heaven; sky.
  • heaven — the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
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