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UK
/ˈeəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈɛɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
airy gauze curtains -
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
an airy apparition
physical rather than ethereal forms
figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away
aerial fancies -
not practical or realizable; speculative
visionary schemes for getting rich
airy theories about socioeconomic improvement -
open to or abounding in fresh air
airy rooms
How To Use airy In A Sentence
- The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
- Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
- The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
- It suggests a sense of humour, a willingness to make an effort, an aspiration towards the airy, healthy, beardless Scandinavian lifestyle.
- We minimize the use of saturated fats found in foods such as butter, ghee, suet, lard, coconut oil and dairy products.
- Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
- And coming up in the second half of RELIABLE SOURCES, Bill Clinton blasts the press for perpetuating what he calls a fairy tale. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008
- There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars. Les Miserables
- Bull calves from dairy herds are usually castrated, becoming steers, and sent to feedlots, where they are fattened for slaughter, usually before the age of 2.
- An odd hairy quadruped is upsetting residents of Scott Town, Jamaica, again. Archive 2008-06-01