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airy ‎(comparative airier, superlative airiest)

  1. Consisting of air.
    an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies
  2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
    an airy flight
  3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
    an airy situation
  5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
    airy music
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
      Ah me, ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy’s room, my friends, since I have occupied it, than the ghost of my own childhood, the ghost of my own innocence, the ghost of my own airy belief.
  9. (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.