Crossword clues for airy
airy
- Delicate; well ventilated
- Like a soufflé
- Far from stuffy
- Gracefully delicate
- Light and delicate
- Free and easy
- Having good ventilation
- Open and breezy
- Like breezeways
- Having good circulation
- Amply ventilated
- Open to the wind
- Like a stadium without a dome
- Having no perceptible weight
- What Tennyson called combatants (1835!)
- Opposite of stuffy, roomwise
- Opposite of stuffy
- Open and spacious
- Not at all stuffy
- Like sponge cakes
- Like a spacious room
- Like a soufflé's texture
- Like a screened-in porch
- Like a screened porch
- Like a room without a roof
- Like a room with no ceiling
- Like a light cake
- Like a good souffle
- Like a good meringue
- Like a gazebo
- Light and lively
- Light and insubstantial
- Light and fluffy
- Letting in a breeze, say
- Hirsute, to a cockney
- Hardly claustrophobic
- Free-flowing, in a way
- Far from claustrophobic
- Exceptionally light
- Elegantly graceful
- Descriptor for a light cake
- Cream puff-like
- Conducive to breezes
- Breezy and open
- Breezy and bright
- Allowing a breeze to come through
- Allowing a breeze
- (Of ideas) speculative
- Not stifling
- Insubstantial
- Breezy, as a room
- Well ventilated
- Open to breezes
- Ethereal
- Subject to breezes
- Well-ventilated
- Open to the breeze
- Subject to a draft
- Light as a feather
- Gossamer
- Light and open
- Full of breezes
- Unsubstantial
- Bright and breezy
- Open-roofed
- Hardly stuffy
- Delicate and breezy
- Not stuffy
- Light and graceful
- Light and breezy
- Like a soufflГ©'s texture
- Very light
- Like an atrium
- Flippant
- Light; flippant
- Vivacious
- Buoyant
- Lighthearted and gay
- Like a breezeway
- ___ Alf of comics
- Light; unsubstantial
- Affected
- Light or lighthearted
- Ventilated
- Immaterial
- Sprightly
- Like gossamer
- Towering
- Like some rooms
- Like persiflage
- Well-ventilated; casual
- Spacious, well-ventilated
- Fresh milk etc? Not initially
- Fanciful? Indeed, about Irish
- Risky losing leader without thinking things through
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Airy \Air"y\, a.
Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; a["e]rial; as, an airy flight. ``The airy region.''
--Milton.Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. ``An airy spirit.''
--Shak.Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.
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Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. ``Airy fame.''
--Shak.Empty sound, and airy notions.
--Roscommon. Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. ``Merry and airy.''
--Jer. Taylor.Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]
(Paint.) Having the light and a["e]rial tints true to nature.
--Elmes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "of the air, made of air," from air (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "breezy" is attested from 1590s; that of "lively" is from 1640s. Sense of "vain, unsubstantial" is from 1580s. Disparaging airy-fairy is attested from 1920 (earlier in a sense of "delicate or light as a fairy," which is how Tennyson used it in 1830).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies. 2 Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight. 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. 5 Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music. 6 Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. 7 Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. 8 Having an affected manner; being in the habit of put on airs; affectedly grand. 9 (context painting English) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
WordNet
adj. open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn: aired]
not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: impractical, visionary, Laputan]
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; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, aery, ethereal]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Airy is an impact crater on Mars, named in honor of the British Astronomer, Royal Sir George Biddell Airy (1801–1892). The crater is approximately in diameter and is located at 0.1°E 5.1°S in the Meridiani Planum region. The much smaller crater Airy-0, which defines the location of Mars' prime meridian, lies within it.
thumb|Airy Airy is a lunar impact crater located in the southern highlands. It is named in honour of British astronomer George Biddell Airy. It forms the southern-most member of a chain of craters consisting of Vogel, Argelander, and Airy. A little further to the south lies Donati. Airy has a worn, and somewhat polygonal rim that it broken at the northern and southern ends. It has an irregular floor and a central peak.
Airy may refer to:
- Sir George Biddell Airy (1801–1892), British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, for whom the following features, phenomena, and theories are named:
- Airy (lunar crater)
- Airy (Martian crater)
- Airy-0, a smaller crater within the previous one on Mars, and which defines the prime meridian of the planet
- Airy wave theory, a linear theory describing the propagation of "gravity waves" on the surface of a fluid
- Airy disk, a diffraction pattern in optics
- Airy beam, a non-spreading, transversely accelerating optical wavepacket
- Airy function, a mathematical function
- Airy points, support points chosen to minimize the distortion of the length of a physical standard (such as the International Prototype Meter)
- Anna Airy (1882–1964), British artist
Airy is software developed by Eltima Software for downloading videos from YouTube.
The first version of the product was released in 2013. Written in Objective C it was a basic downloading tool that could process one video at a time. CNET staff in their review says that "It has a very streamlined interface with just a couple of options and a copy/paste mechanic." Additional functionality was added including the capacity to download a few files simultaneously by copy-pasting links in a text editor. The app can convert downloaded content into a format and resolution of user's choice – HD, SD and low definition. The app is capable of extracting audio files from videos. Starting from version 2.0 the app can download entire YouTube playlists.
Initially developed for Mac OS, Airy also supports Windows. Marina Dan from Softpedia says that "Airy is a useful and reliable piece of software that provides with the means of downloading videos or extracting the audio from selected clips on YouTube" The Mac version has more features than the one for Windows, including playlists download and ability to pause and resume downloads.
Airy has been included in the lists of the tools recommended for downloading YouTube videos. Some of the tech websites put Airy on the first place in their list of the best YouTube video Downloaders.
Usage examples of "airy".
It was made out of a blend of cotton and silk, an airy material that Agate favored.
Jane hurried after Amy into the airy white-and-blue-papered room they had shared since they were old enough to abandon the nursery.
She was like a long, lightly stunned fish - made to lie coolly atwitch, but airy in the hand.
We all stopped to watch it: long lines of riders in black, with other riders in fine, airy colors between them, and the Cygnet on a pennant as long as a furrow, flying like a black flame over them all.
She was also an excellent servant, could do as much as any two women in any house, and was capable of more airy diablerie than any ten of her sex in Pontiac.
Habit had almost conferred upon her the power of spontaneous poesy, and while she pressed his forehead to her bosom, she warbled forth a strain airy and exuberant in numbers, tender and exstatic in its imagery.
Yama charged at the doctor then, and one of the flock of machines which floated in the big, airy room swerved and clipped him on the side of the head.
They rummaged through the lumber pile in the great circular room as Myles and Gascoyne had done, and at last, tired out, they ascended to the airy chapel, and there sat cooling themselves in the rustling freshness of the breeze that came blowing briskly in through the arched windows.
If you had seen those hardy and sinewy Frenchmen gliding in the dusk of evening from cottage to cottage, passing the word that the Americans had arrived, saying airy things and pinching one another as they met and hurried on, you would have thought something very amusing and wholly jocund was in preparation for the people of Vincennes.
My horse stumbled so badly that I was obliged to walk to save myself from another fall, and, just as my powers were failing, we met a kuruma, which by good management, such as being carried occasionally, brought me into Kuroishi, a neat town of 5500 people, famous for the making of clogs and combs, where I have obtained a very neat, airy, upstairs room, with a good view over the surrounding country and of the doings of my neighbours in their back rooms and gardens.
Zelzony into a light airy room where mirrors danced lumen lines into sculptures that changed position as the angle of the sun changed and gradually acquired a flush as it sank toward the horizon.
Rhegor and Nevyn went inside their cabin, a single light airy room, scented with new-cut pine.
The careless glance which men of wit and learning condescended to cast on the Christian revelation, served only to confirm their hasty opinion, and to persuade them that the principle, which they might have revered, of the Divine Unity, was defaced by the wild enthusiasm, and annihilated by the airy speculations, of the new sectaries.
And in that skyey distance, pre-eminent beyond range on range of ice-robed mountains, I beheld two peaks throned for ever between firm land and heaven in unearthly loveliness: the spires and airy ridges of Koshtra Pivrarcha, and the wild precipices that soar upward from the abysses to the queenly silent snowdome of Koshtra Belorn.
And he felt upon his forehead Blows of little airy war-clubs, Wielded by the slumbrous legions Of the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin, As of some one breathing on him.