zephyr
A soft, gentle breeze.
zephyr in a sentence
- A zephyr stirred the curtains on the warm summer evening.
- A gentle zephyr drifted across the cricket pitch, just enough to cool the tired fielders.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to zephyr?
- Agale
- Bbreeze
- Cblast
- Dstorm
Show the answer
B: breeze. The other three mean the opposite of zephyr.
Words that mean something similar
breeze
Words that mean the opposite
gale, storm, blast
More words about weather & nature
- adverse: Unhelpful or harmful; working against you.
- arid: Very dry, with almost no rain at all.
- atrocious: Extremely bad or unpleasant.
- bleak: Cold, empty and without much hope.
- conserve: To protect something from harm, or to save it from being wasted.
- cultivate: To grow plants, or to work at improving something.
- dreary: Dull, grey and boring.
- drenched: Completely soaked with water.
More words to explore
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