windowed

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adjective

Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.

“This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.”

Similar
fenestratedglazed
Opposite
unwindowednonwindowedwindowlessunfenestratedfull screen
OriginMiddle English wyndowed →
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Meanings

adjectivewindowed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.

    1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103, You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]

    5 more examples

    Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]

    I need not say that my thoughts were chiefly with her as I leaned from the lattice, and let my eye roam, now over the walks and borders of the garden, now along the many-windowed front of the house which rose white beyond the masses of foliage.

    1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 12, in The Professor

    Loud the happy children quire To the golden-windowed morn; While the lord of their desire Sleeps below the crimson thorn.

    1917, Siegfried Sassoon, “Morning Glory”, in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81

    The walls below are bare, but for a few glazed bricks and a peculiar three-windowed bay that reminds one of a villa in Clapham.

    1937, “Herat, 23 November”, in The Road to Oxiana

    Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a castle argent, gated and windowed gules; 2nd, gules three legs armed proper, flexed and conjoined triangularly at the upper end of the thigh, garnished and spurred or; 3rd, azure, a deer's head cabossed[…]

    1956, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 203

    Synonyms: fenestrated, glazed

  2. not comparablecomputingOccupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)

    This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of window

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveFitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.

Similar
fenestratedglazed

antonym(s) of “fitted with windows”

Opposite
unwindowednonwindowedwindowlessunfenestrated

antonym(s) of “occupying a graphical window”

Opposite
full screen
Also see
fenestrated

Origin

  1. Middle Englishwyndowed
  2. Englishwindowed

From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.

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Translations

French fenêtré
  • fenêtréfitted with windows
Hungarian ablakos, ablakú
  • ablakosfitted with windows
  • ablakúfitted with windows
  • üvegesfitted with windows
Irish fuinneogach
  • fuinneogachfitted with windows
Polish oszklony
  • oszklonyfitted with windows
Romanian ferestruit
  • ferestruitfitted with windows
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “windowed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windowed.

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