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Drafty

Drafty meaning

Characterized by gusts of wind; windy. | Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts).

Synonyms of Drafty

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If the sensor is placed in a location that is exposed to direct sunlight, near a drafty area, or close to a heat source, it may give inaccurate readings.

A drafty house is never good, and overlooking drafts around windows and doors can cause significant heat loss, leading to higher energy bills.

But spartan accommodations don’t have to mean drafty and dreary, as evidenced by such design-centric locales as Tokyo’s Nadeshiko Hotel, Norway’s Manhausen Island Resort, the Czech Republic’s Contain Hotel and Spain’s Hotel Aire de Bardenas.

The U.S. Department of Energy says that between 10% and 20% of energy use is due to drafty doors and windows.

Wife Mary points out this is no drafty old barn.

His decision—kill the queen and be damned to a lonely, loveless exile in a cold, drafty palace—was the inverse of what his father Rhaegar chose, when he fled his wife and abandoned his throne for the love of Lyanna Stark.

It was a drafty Georgian house crammed to the attics with women and children who’d fled from violent men.

We live in a drafty old house in the Plateau and I’ve spent too much time over the past few months cocooned in blankets, armed with mugs of tea.

Struggling writer Émile Zola ( Paul Muni ) shares a drafty Paris attic with his friend, painter Paul Cézanne ( Vladimir Sokoloff ).