Airy

/ˈɛə.ɹi/ · adjective

Meaning

Consisting of air..

Definitions by Sense

1. Consisting of air.
2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
6. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
7. Light-hearted; vivacious
8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

Example Sentences

an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies

an airy flight

an airy situation

It was a good solid house, fanless but airy.

Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!

airy music

Ah me, ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy’s room, my friends, since I have occupied it, than the ghost of my own childhood, the ghost of my own innocence, the ghost of my own airy belief.

One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.

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Word Forms

• airier
• airiest

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