Word Meanings - AIRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. Elmes. (more info) 1. Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies. 2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton. 3.

Additional info about word: AIRY

Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. Elmes. (more info) 1. Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies. 2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton. 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." Shak. 5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music. 6. Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon. 7. Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. "Merry and airy." Jer. Taylor. 8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AIRY)

• Jauty
• or Jaunty
• Flighty
• airy
• fantastic
• showy
• flaunting
• Lofty
• Elevated
• towering
• high
• dignified
• eminent
• stately
• haughty
• majestic
• tall
• Volatile
• Vaporizable
• sublimable
• distillable
• spirituous
• evaporating
• gay
• Iively
• capricious
• irresolute

Related words: (words related to AIRY)

• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SUBLIMABLE
  Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle.
• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
  Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
• MAJESTICNESS
  The quality or state of being majestic. Oldenburg.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• PREEMINENT
  Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent.
• SUPEREMINENT
  Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. -- Su`per*em"i*nent*ly, adv.