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airy

UK/ˈɛə.ɹi/ US/ˈɛː.ɹi/ uncommon

adjective

1.

open to or abounding in fresh air

  • “airy rooms”
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2.

not practical or realizable; speculative

  • “airy theories about socioeconomic improvement”
  • “visionary schemes for getting rich”
3.

having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air

  • “airy gauze curtains”
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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”

Origin

From air + -y.

Phrases

  • airy fairy
  • Mount Airy

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