adjective
- Open to or abounding in fresh air.
- usage: "airy rooms"
- synonyms: aired
- Not practical or realizable; speculative.
- usage: "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
- synonyms: impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy
- Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air.
- usage: "airy gauze curtains"
- Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.
- usage: "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
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