Balmy

Definitions: Balmy

Balmy

Adjective

1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

2. Mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "balmy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Balmy

Inactivity

Sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.

Sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology.

Phrase: the eyes begin to draw straws; "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease"; " better years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"; "idly busy rolls their world away "; "the mystery of folded sleep"; "the timely dew of sleep"; "thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep"; "tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep".

Relief

Adjective: relieving; Verb: consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne; (remedial); curative.

Crosswords: Balmy

A Balmy Knight (1966)

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Music

• Balmy Under the Stormy [IMPORT] (reference)

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The balmy air, pure, living, joyful, freely respirable, flowed around him.

The verses told only of the night and the balmy breeze and the maiden lustre of the moon.

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Albanian

qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, bland, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer), i krisur (bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky), i butë (bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding), erëkëndshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتدل (abstemious, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏عطر (attar, eau de cologne, embalm, fragrant, odor, odorous, odour, perfume, redolence, redolent, scent), ‏شاف (curative), ‏بلسمي (balsamic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупавичък, мек (benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), ароматен (ambrosial, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, sapid, scented, spicy, sweet-scented), лековит (healing, medicative, medicinal). (various references)

Chinese 

芳香迷人, 芳香 , 颽 (genial as wind). (various references)

Czech

vonný (aromatic, fragrant, odorous, redolent), uklidòující (calming, easeful, emollient, placatory, restful, sedative, soothing), mírný (benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), mìkký (fresh, gentle, mellow, mild, silky, soft, squashy, tender), libý (delightful, pleasurable), konejšivý (soothing). (various references)

French

balsamique (balsamic), timbré (barmy), parfumé, maboul (barmy), embaumé, adoucissant. (various references)

German

mild (benevolent, benign, bland, clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly). (various references)

Greek 

γλυκόσ (sweet), γλυκύσ (mellow, suave, sweet), βαλσαμώδησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקוי בשכלו, � עים ורך. (various references)

Hungarian

balzsamos, nyugtató (bland, relaxing, sedative, soothing, tranquillizer), illatos (fragrant, nosy, odoriferous, odorous, redolent, sweet, to embalm), csillapító (absorber, attenuative, bland, depressant, mitigative, palliative, soothing). (various references)

Indonesian

tolol (idiotic, silly), sejuk (cool, mild), lembut (lithesome, mellow, pliable, soft). (various references)

Italian

balsamico (balsamic), svanito (flatness), fragrante (aromatic, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, redolent), dolce; fragrante; mite; soave. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薫風 (balmy breeze, summer breeze). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅ�"ぷうたいとう (genial and balmy, warm and genial spring weather), く�"ぷう (balmy breeze, summer breeze). (various references)

Manx

millish (darling, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, luscious, sugary, sweet), baumagh, balsymagh (balsamic). (various references)

Norwegian

skrullete, mild (genial, lenient). (various references)

Pig Latin

almybay.(various references)

Portuguese

balsâmico (balm, balsam, balsamic), reparador (remedial), perfumado (fragrant), adoidado (crazy). (various references)

Romanian

balsamic (balsamic), tãmãduitor (curer, healer, healing), parfumat (aromatic, flavorous, odoriferous, redolent, scented, spicy), nerod (blockhead, dunderhead, fool, gudgeon, ninny, numskull, oaf, oafish, snipe, spoony), liniştitor (assuasive, calming, composing, easeful, reassuring, restful, restfully, softening, soothing), calmant (anodyne, assuasive, calmative, calming, pain killer, sedative, tranquillizer), aromatic (flavored, flavoured, fragrant), îmbãlsãmat (embalmed, odorous). (various references)

Russian 

успокаивающий (anodyne, assuasive, calming, composing, demulcent, lenitive, sedative, soothing), ароматный (aromatic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, full-flavoured, nosey, redolent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

melemski. (various references)

Spanish

balsámico (balsamic). (various references)

Swedish

vederkvickande (refreshing). (various references)

Turkish

sıcacık ve hoş, kaçık (a button short, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), huzur veren (balsamic, calming, piping, quiet, relaxing, restful, smooth, soothing), hoş kokulu (odoriferous, odorous, sweetscented), dinlendirici (balsamic, calming, quiet, recreative, relaxing, reposeful, restful, soothing), çatlak (barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references)

Ukranian 

солодкий (dulcet, nectareous, sweet), смолистий (gummy, pitchy, resinaceous, resinous), цілющий (beneficial, curative, healing, healthful, medicative, recuperative, salubrious, sanative, sanatory), ніжний (affectional, affectionate, delicate, devoted, fatherly, fond, melting, sentimental, silken, silky, sisterly, soft, tender), навіжений (addle, barmy, extravagant, nut, nuts, nutty, screwball, wild, wildcat), заспокойливий, запашний (aromatic, nectareous, odorant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, racy, sweet), ароматний (balsamic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, luscious, nosey, odorant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, scented), бальзамічний (balsamic), при�"мний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy), дурний (anserine, asinine, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless), духмяний (fragrant, nectareous, odorant, odoriferous, odorous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thơm ngát dịu (balmily), thơm (aromatic, balmily, balsam, perfumed, sweet-scented), điên r�" (frantic). (various references)

Welsh

balmaidd. (various references)

Misspellings

"Balmy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: almy, bacly, Balgy, balim, Balma, Balme, balmi, Balmin, balmn, balsy, balum, baly, balzy, bami, bammy, bamy, Belamy, belm, Bemy, Beomuy, blamey, Blimy, Galmoy, Kalmyk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lamby.

-1 letter: ably, amyl, balm, blam, lamb.

-2 letters: aby, alb, bal, bam, bay, lab, lam, lay, may, yam.

-3 letters: ab, al, am, ay, ba, by, la, ma, my, ya.

+1 letter: cymbal, marbly, tymbal, wambly.

+2 letters: abysmal, amiably, balmily, beamily, brambly, cymbals, movably, mutably, tymbals.

+3 letters: amenably, amicably, assembly, blamably, carbamyl, cymbaler, cymbalom, damnably, lambency, mealybug, moveably, myoblast.

+4 letters: abysmally, admirably, amblyopia, amblyopic, amphiboly, assumably, beamishly, blasphemy, carbamyls, cymbalers, cymbalist, cymbaloms, embryonal, estimably, immovably, immutably, jambalaya, lambently, mealybugs, memorably, miserably, molybdate, myoblasts, myrobalan, removably, semblably, subfamily.

+5 letters: abnormally, abominably, amblyopias, ambulatory, amiability, bigamously, bimanually, bimodality, binomially, blamefully, comparably, compatibly, cymbalists, emblazonry, employable, flamboyant, formidably, imaginably, impalpably, impartibly, impassably, impassibly, impeccably, implacably, improbably, inimitably, jambalayas, lamentably, lumberyard, manageably, measurably, metastably, molybdates, movability, mutability, myeloblast, myrobalans, presumably, ramblingly, reassembly, remarkably, symbolical, terminably.

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