What is airy?

  • (adj): Not practical or realizable; speculative.
    Example: "Airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"
    Synonyms: impractical, visionary, Laputan
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on airy:

Mount Airy Historic District
... Mount Airy Historic District can refer to Mount Airy Historic District (Mount Airy, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland Mount Airy Historic District (Moun ...
Camp Airy - People
... One of the most prized assets of Airy are the people who work there ... For Airy, this includes persons such as Rick Frankle, Doctors Danny and David Framm, Larry Cantor and Mike Schneider ... While some of these "Lifers" are no longer a part of the daily running of Camp Airy, most can be found "on the hill" each and every season ...
Airy Hill
... Airy Hill is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States ... Airy Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 ...

More definitions of "airy":

  • (adj): Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.
    Example: "An airy apparition"
    Synonyms: aeriform, aerial, aery, ethereal
  • (adj): Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air.
    Example: "Airy gauze curtains"
  • (adj): Open to or abounding in fresh air.
    Example: "Airy rooms"
    Synonyms: aired

Famous quotes containing the word airy:

    “But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
    —GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “He may have seen with his mechanic eyes
    A world without a meaning, and had room,
    Alone amid magnificence and doom,
    To build himself an airy monument”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Up the airy mountain,
    Down the rushy glen,
    We daren’t go a-hunting
    For fear of little men.”
    —William Allingham (1824–1889)