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Synonyms for airy
ˈɛər iai·ry

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. airy

    Aerial and airy both signify of or belonging to the air, but airy also describes that which seems as if made of air; we speak of airy shapes, airy nothings, where we could not well say aerial; ethereal describes its object as belonging to the upper air, the pure ether, and so, often, heavenly. Sprightly, spiritlike, refers to light, free, cheerful activity of mind and body. That which is lively or animated may be agreeable or the reverse; as, an animated discussion; a lively company.

    Synonyms:
    aerial, animated, ethereal, fairylike, frolicsome, gay, joyous, light, lively, sprightly

    Antonyms:
    clumsy, dull, heavy, inert, ponderous, slow, sluggish, stony, wooden

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. airy

    Synonyms:
    light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated, frolicsome, fairy-like

    Antonyms:
    dull, inert, stony, ponderous, plow, heavy, cheerless, sullen, dolesome, lugubrious, leaden, wooden

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. aired, airyadjective

    open to or abounding in fresh air

    "airy rooms"

    Synonyms:
    aery, aeriform, windy, ethereal, impractical, aerial, visionary, aired

    Antonyms:
    dystopian, heavy, material, unventilated, substantial, real

  2. airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windyadjective

    not practical or realizable; speculative

    "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"

    Synonyms:
    verbose, wordy, blowy, aery, aeriform, windy, ethereal, long-winded, tedious, impractical, aerial, visionary, breezy, aired

    Antonyms:
    dystopian, substantial, heavy, real, material, unventilated

  3. airyadjective

    having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air

    "airy gauze curtains"

    Synonyms:
    aery, aeriform, windy, ethereal, impractical, aerial, visionary, aired

    Antonyms:
    substantial, dystopian, unventilated, heavy, real, material

  4. aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, etherealadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    celestial, supernal, aery, aeriform, windy, ethereal, airlike, impractical, aerial, visionary, gossamer, aired

    Antonyms:
    substantial, real, heavy, unventilated, dystopian, material

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    unsubstantial, aerial, ethereal, aeriform, thin, rare

  2. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    light, subtile, sublimated

  3. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    sprightly, buoyant, vivacious, wanton, volatile, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, gay, blithe, light, light-hearted, light of heart, in spirits, in good spirits, of good cheer

  4. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    showy, gaudy, flaunting, jaunty, gairish, fine

  5. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    windy, empty

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. airyadjective

    Synonyms:
    aërial, aëriform, ethereal, atmospheric, pneumatic, unsubstantial, breezy, windy, ventilated, visionary, unreal, vivacious, sprightly, garish, jaunty, flaunting

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How to use airy in a sentence?

  1. John Keats:

    It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

  2. Kabbalah:

    We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

  3. Samuel Johnson:

    When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

  4. Henry Ward Beecher:

    We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.


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