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Definition of airy



Overview of adj airy

The adj airy has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) aired, airy

(open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms")

2. airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy

(not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich")

3. airy

(having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains")

4. aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal

(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")