airy
1. open to or abounding in fresh air (Freq. 4)
- airy rooms
• Syn:
aired
• Similar to:
ventilated
• Derivationally related forms:
air, airiness
2. not practical or realizable;
speculative
- airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
- visionary schemes for getting rich
• Syn:
impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy
• Similar to:
utopian
• Derivationally related forms:
Laputa (for: Laputan), visionary (for: visionary), vision (for: visionary), impracticality (for: impractical)
3. having little or no perceptible weight;
so light as to resemble air
- airy gauze curtains
• Similar to:
light
• Derivationally related forms:
airiness
4. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality;
as impalpable or intangible as air
- "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle
- aerial fancies
- an airy apparition
- physical rather than ethereal forms
• Syn:
aeriform, aerial, aery, ethereal
• Similar to:
insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal
• Derivationally related forms:
airiness
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