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airy fairy

/ˈeəɹi feəɹi/

airy fairy adjective: insubstantial.

Adjective

airy fairy (comparative more airy fairy, superlative most airy fairy)

  1. (derogatory, informal) Insubstantial.
  2. (derogatory, informal) Impractical.

airy fairy meaning in Bengali

airy fairy in Bengali

অবাস্তব, অসার, অব্যবহারিক

Forms of airy fairy

comparativemore airy fairy
superlativemost airy fairy

Origin of airy fairy

Coined by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1830 in his poem Lilian.

Questions about airy fairy

What does airy fairy mean?
Airy fairy means insubstantial.
What is airy fairy in Bengali?
Airy fairy in Bengali is অবাস্তব, অসার, অব্যবহারিক. See Airy fairy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is airy fairy?
Airy fairy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce airy fairy?
Airy fairy is pronounced /ˈeəɹi feəɹi/.

Words near airy fairy in the dictionary

  1. Airy discs
  2. Airy disk
  3. Airy disks
  4. Airy equation
  5. Airy equations
  6. airy fairy
  7. Airy function
  8. Airy functions
  9. Airy Mean Time
  10. Airy pattern
  11. Airy patterns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airy fairy (page history and authors); airy fairy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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