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airy in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    aeriform  aerial  airy  aery  ethereal 
  2. open to or abounding in fresh air
    "airy rooms"
    aired  airy 
  3. having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
    "airy gauze curtains"
    airy 
  4. not practical or realizable; speculative
    "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
    airy  impractical  visionary  Laputan  windy 
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