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Adjective: airy (airier,airiest)  eh-ree
  1. Open to or abounding in fresh air
    "airy rooms";
    - aired
     
  2. Not practical or realizable; speculative
    "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement";
    - impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy
     
  3. Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
    "airy gauze curtains"
     
  4. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
    "an airy apparition";
    - aeriform, aerial, aery, ethereal, etherial

Derived forms: airiest, airier

See also: insubstantial, light, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, ventilated

Encyclopedia: Airy, George Biddell, Sir