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Airy   /ˈɛri/   Listen
adjective
Airy  adj.  
1.
Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
2.
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region."
3.
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.
4.
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit."
5.
Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.
6.
Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." "Empty sound, and airy notions."
7.
Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. "Merry and airy."
8.
Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. (Colloq.)
9.
(Paint.) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.





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"Airy" Quotes from Famous Books



... stifling," she said. "After all, this is a small sort of school, and the rooms are low and by no means airy." ...
— A Modern Tomboy - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade
... like a spear piercing the sky. Anarrow path leading so far up will be found round the N.W. corner. The views are superb, of the valley of the Rhne on one side, and on the other of the Coiron mountains. These ruins, which from below look slim and airy, are the remains of a massive edifice constructed principally of basaltic prisms in the 12th cent. by the family of Adhmar de Montheil, and reduced to its present condition by order ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... other and no less splendidly decorated tribunes, the seats of which had been sold at enormous rates to the aristocracy and wealthy citizens of Vienna for the benefit of the militia; and thousands had found seats on the trees surrounding the broad promenade and the rondel, and paid for their airy perches only with some pains ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... large, airy, clean, wooden one—which ought to have had a verandah round to keep off the intolerable sunlight, and which might, too, have had another pulpit. For in getting up to preach in a sort of pill-box on a long stalk, I found the said stalk surging ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley
... big guide, whose name is really not Pete at all, waved an airy hand toward the massed peaks ...
— Tenting To-night - A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the - Cascade Mountains • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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