airy

See also: Airy

English

air +‎ -y

airy (comparative airier, superlative airiest)

Consisting of air.
an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
an airy flight
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
an airy situation
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- 1977 July 10, Shooter, Jim, “Beware the Ant-Man!”, in Avengers, volume 1, number 161, panel 5, Marvel Comics, page 14:
  Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!
Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
airy music
Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
Synonyms: empty, trifling, visionary
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
  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.
light-hearted; vivacious
Synonyms: sprightly, flippant, superficial
Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
(painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

(consisting of air): aereous
(resembling air): aereous; See also Thesaurus:insubstantial or Thesaurus:gaseous
(relating to the spirit or soul): ethereal
(not based on reality): empty, trifling, visionary
(light-hearted; vivacious): flippant, sprightly, superficial; See also Thesaurus:active or Thesaurus:carefree
(having an affected manner): See also Thesaurus:arrogant

breezy, in an airy situation

light of heart, superficial

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