airy meaning and definition

AIRY adjective

Definition of airy (adjective)

1. open to or abounding in fresh air
   • "airy rooms"
   • synonyms: aired
2. not practical or realizable; speculative
   • "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
   • synonyms: impractical, Laputan, visionary, 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
   • "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
   • synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, ethereal