airy
1. [ adjective ] open to or abounding in fresh air
Synonyms: aired
Examples:

"airy rooms"

Related terms: ventilated
2. [ adjective ] having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
Examples:

"airy gauze curtains"

Related terms: light
3. [ adjective ] not practical or realizable; speculative
Synonyms: visionary impractical
Examples:

"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement" "visionary schemes for getting rich"

Related terms: utopian
4. [ adjective ] not practical or realizable; speculative
Synonyms: laputan visionary impractical
Examples:

"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement" "visionary schemes for getting rich"

Related terms: utopian
5. [ adjective ] characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
Synonyms: ethereal aerial aery aeriform
Examples:

"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle "aerial fancies" "an airy apparition" "physical rather than ethereal forms"

Related terms: insubstantial
Similar spelling:   air
  airway
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