| a. | 1. | Consisting of air; |
| 2. | Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; | |
| 3. | Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; | |
| 4. | Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. | |
| 5. | Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; | |
| 6. | Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. | |
| 7. | Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. | |
| 8. | Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. | |
| 9. | (Paint.) Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. |
| Adj. | 1. | airy - open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" Synonyms: aired |
| 2. | airy - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" | |
| 3. | airy - having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains" | |
| 4. | airy - characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "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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