aery

1. 1.

   characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

   “figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away”

   “aerial fancies”

   “an airy apparition”

   “physical rather than ethereal forms”

   Synonymsaeriformaerialairyethereal

   Similarinsubstantial

Other forms of aery

plural

aeries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aery

What does aery mean?

aery means "the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aery?

aery has 3 syllables and divides as a-e-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aery?

Close synonyms include aerie, eyrie, eyry, aerie, eyrie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aery a common word?

aery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.