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airier

a. (en-comparativeairy)

WordNet
airy
  1. adj. open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn: aired]

  2. not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: impractical, visionary, Laputan]

  3. having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"

  4. 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]

  5. [also: airiest, airier]

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Usage examples of "airier".

Kobolds, gnomes, and trolls lived underground, but he had thought to find the fay in an airier, lighter place.

All were fully decked, which meant the oarsmen sat within the hull, an ordeal more endurable because they were housed in an outrigger that projected them well over the water, made it easier and airier to row.

Smokies shelters but are airier, cleaner, better designed, and without those horrible, depressing chain-link fences across their fronts.

The place was a log cabin, airier than it looked from the outside, and Maggie apparently shared it with several other people who were not there at the moment.

Presumably theoreticians needed airier and lighter surroundings for inspiration.

She stopped, scooping her cards together, and when she began again her voice had become airier, now truly the voice of a fortune cookie.

Ballintubber, but they felt different: lighter, airier, with the trees spaced farther apart and well-worn paths meandering among them.

Bower in his library, although it was an airier and more heterogeneously fitted-up sanctuary.

There was one figure among them who was lighter and airier than all the rest, and she darted in and out between the lines, and round and round them, like a butterfly fluttering around a bed of tossing flowers.