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nonairy

nonairy adjective: not airy. (any sense).

Adjective

nonairy (comparative more nonairy, superlative most nonairy)

  1. Not airy. (any sense)
    • she must use another, nonairy “vessel" to prepare WS for her divine dispensation.1979, Geoffrey Aggeler, Anthony Burgess: The Artist as Novelist, page 76
    • Meaning that is a matter of language and meaning that is a matter of use or context of utterance need to be distinguished in a principled nonairy manner.2016, PP Giridhar, “Taprooting translation: Reflections on the epistemology of translation”, in GSTF Journal on Education

Forms of nonairy

comparativemore nonairy
superlativemost nonairy

Origin of nonairy

From non- + airy.

Questions about nonairy

What does nonairy mean?
Nonairy means not airy. (any sense).
What part of speech is nonairy?
Nonairy is an adjective.

Words near nonairy in the dictionary

  1. nonairfield
  2. nonairline
  3. nonairport
  4. nonairtight
  5. nonairworthy
  6. nonairy
  7. nonaketide
  8. nonaketides
  9. nonakin
  10. nonal
  11. nonalarm

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