airier

Adjective

airy (comparative airier, superlative airiest)

1. Consisting of air.
   • an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies

   Synonyms:

   aereous

2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
   • an airy flight
3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
   • It was a good solid house, fanless but airy.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 255
4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
   • Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!1977 July 10, Jim Shooter, “Beware the Ant-Man!”, in Avengers, volume 1, number 161, panel 5, Marvel Comics, page 14

   Synonyms:

   aereous

5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
   • airy music

   Synonyms:

   ethereal

6. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
   • 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.1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […]...

   Synonyms:

   empty, trifling, visionary

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