airy
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
open to or abounding in fresh air
airy rooms
Related & opposite
- airiness derivation
- breeze derivation
- ventilated similar to
Sense 2 adjective
not practical or realizable; speculative
airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
Related & opposite
- impracticality derivation
- Laputa derivation
- vision derivation
- visionary derivation
- utopian similar to
Sense 3 adjective
having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
airy gauze curtains
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away
Related & opposite
- airiness derivation
- insubstantial similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | airiness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | breeze |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | ventilated |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impracticality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Laputa |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vision |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | visionary |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | utopian |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | airiness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | light |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | airiness |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | insubstantial |