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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having the quality or fragrance of balm; soothing.
  2. adj. Mild and pleasant: a balmy breeze.
  3. adj. Chiefly British Slang Eccentric in behavior.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the qualities of balm; aromatic; fragrant.
  2. Producing balm: as, “the balmy tree,”
  3. Soft; soothing; assuaging; refreshing.
  4. Of healing virtue; healing: as, balmy medicines.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Producing balm.
  2. adj. Soothing or fragrant.
  3. adj. Mild and pleasant.
  4. adj. informal Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
  2. adj. Producing balm.
  3. adj. Informal Highly eccentric or crazy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. mild and pleasant
  2. adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Etymologies

  1. From balm +‎ -y. (Wiktionary)
  2. Sense 3, alteration of barmy, frothy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “He had been sun-bathed in balmy weather, and brought in out of the wet when it rained.”

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  • “I'm so glad I moved here from Texas, where it's nice and balmy from the global warming.”

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  • “It's officially autumn today, but it still feels like summer here in balmy southern Ontario.”

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  • “The attendant of the room was sleeping like a near relative of the celebrated Seven, and nothing short of pins would rouse him; for he had been out that day, and whiskey asserted its supremacy in balmy whiffs.”

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  • “It was accompanied by a voice so enchantingly tender and melodious, that its sounds fell on the heart of Osbert in balmy comfort: it seemed sent by Heaven to arrest his fate: – the storm of passion was hushed within him, and he dissolved in kind tears of pity and contrition.”

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  • “The last week or so had seen a rise in temperatures to the 80s, described as balmy and August-like.”

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  • “DH said today felt "balmy" in comparison since we had a high of around 10 degrees F. Joy.”

    Postcard from the Cave

  • “Although Aillaud describes the weather as "balmy" on this November day, the temperature is 12 degrees, and the 22 mph wind makes it feel colder.”

    Alaska gym teacher doesn't let elements stop exercise

  • “But looking in advance of the front, we do have a lot of moisture coming into areas of New England making for cloudy kind of balmy weather.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2007

  • “St James Park in Exeter has proven to be some kind of balmy Big Freeze-defying oasis this weekend.”

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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. odorous
  2. refreshing
  1. fragrant
  2. soothing
  1. spicy
  2. sweet-scented
  1. odoriferous
  2. aromatic
  1. assuaging
  2. mild
  1. calmative
  2. mitigatory

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘balmy’

  1. clement
  1. insane

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. dewy
  2. rainy
  3. autumnal
  1. sunny
  2. sultry
  3. cloudless
  1. fragrant
  2. windless
  3. mellow
  1. sunshiny
  2. healthful
  3. wintry
  1. restful
  2. muggy
  3. balsamic
  1. delicious
  2. aromatic
  3. tropical
  1. intoxicating

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Commie
  2. Mommy
  1. Tommy
  2. Yanomami
  1. commie
  2. mommy
  1. pastrami
  2. rami
  1. salami
  2. swami
  1. tommy
  2. tsunami

reverse dictionary (12)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. odorous
  2. balmify
  1. balmily
  2. balminess
  1. balsamy
  2. balmy
  1. soft
  2. shirtsleeve
  1. sweet
  2. balsamic
  1. bland
  2. fragrant

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