What does aerial mean?
Aerial means Living or taking place in the air..
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/ˈɛəɹiəl/ · adjective
Living or taking place in the air..
The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.
A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial, or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].
The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.
the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.
aerial photography
an aerial view of the landscape
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.
Use aerial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aerial means Living or taking place in the air..
Common synonyms include antenna, air step, acrobatic, ethereal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.
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