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# balmy

«balmy» in Mova's school dictionary: **warm, soft and gentle, pleasant to be outside in** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (balmier, balmiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Balmy describes weather or air that is warm, soft and gentle, pleasant to be outside in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/#m1)

2) (informal) Balmy can also mean silly or mad, as in «balmy ideas». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories the air is soft and sweet-smelling, as in a warm island or a garden in summer

### examples

- The evening air was balmy and sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/#x1)
- We ate our tea outside on a balmy night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/#x2)
- The breeze was soft and balmy, scented with roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «balmy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balmy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.