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say it: ER-ee
airy is an adjective meaning "open to or abounding in fresh air". It is pronounced /ˈɛɹi/ — ER-ee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
not practical or realizable; speculative
“airy theories about socioeconomic improvement”
“visionary schemes for getting rich”
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”
“aerial fancies”
“an airy apparition”
“physical rather than ethereal forms”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for airy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.