aerial
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7.1
- adjective
- /ˈɛəriəl/
- Literature
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etéreo
- The delicate, aerial notes of the flute filled the air, creating an ethereal atmosphere in the concert hall.
Examples
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She spoke with an aerial grace, her movements both delicate and fluid as she danced across the stage.
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The artist's painting captures the aerial quality of a sunset, evoking a sense of lightness and beauty.
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The artist uses aerial relationships to provide a stage on which to present his or her creation.
Academic text (1998) -
Two eagles circled in aerial dance over the valley.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ladies and gentleman, aerial ballet extraordinaire.
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Again and again, the poem seeks out this aerial or global perspective, above the normal confines of space and time.
Academic text (2003) -
And yet it all seemed worthwhile to him in those hours when he felt like the city's aerial lord.
Fiction book (1993) -
We would dwindle, grow deliberately thin, almost invisible, and live like aerial plants off the packed fragments and fictions of the hitchhikers we picked up.
Fiction book (1998) -
As a technology of vision and of motion, the balloon not only realized a fantasy of aerial poetic vision, it also facilitated fancy's signature movement: embodied wandering.
Academic text (2017) -
Periodically, the lead hawk or two hawks would stoop out of view, and a trailing hawk assumed the lead position, continuing the aerial acrobatics that we took to be active pursuit of prey.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
22
8.8
Very light and delicate in a way that seems heavenly
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3.4
Very light and delicate, often seeming to float
Light and delicate, like a soft cloud
Very light and not solid like air
Looks or moves like air, being light and not solid
Compounds
- Specialized
3
3.8
Taking photos of land and buildings from the air using a plane or drone
- Specialized
1
5.6
A long ladder on a fire truck that extends to reach high places and rescue people
- Specialized
1
9.1
A weapon released from a plane that moves under water to hit ships or submarines
- Specialized
A fire engine with a long ladder that can extend to reach high places for fighting fires or rescuing people
- UK
An antenna that points in one direction with one center rod and several side rods for TV and radio reception
How Delicate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aerial comes from the Latin root aer meaning 'air' and is like the word airy, so it describes something light, delicate, or almost as if it floats in the air.