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airy

airy

13 2.3
A place with a lot of fresh air and space
  • adjective
  • /ˈɛəri/
translation icon : amplio y ventilado
  • Then they ate dinner in that modern, airy, glassed-in dining hall, with its fine view of the green lake.
  • large and airy
  • airy private house
  • open and airy

Examples

  • Walking down Grant Road, she spied airy, high-ceilinged rooms and verandas spilling over with ferns.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Its spacious and airy apartments have terraces with either partial or full river views.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • It's just so airy and free.

    Outlier (2021)

  • Yes, it's an airy place.

    Sliver (1993)

  • Two hundred and three steps lead to the watch room gallery and its airy views.

    Academic text (2007)

  • It just makes it look so soft and airy and nice.

  • It feels really bright, really airy as well.

  • The new one is a large and airy ultramodern creation of glass, concrete, and marble.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The place was light and airy and had peculiar, not unpleasant, smells.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The library there is an open, airy room painted pink with a skylight.

Synonyms

light and airy
vsairy
2 3.4

Clothes and rooms that are not heavy or tight and feel fresh and open

focuses on roomy ventilation rather than lightness of material
ventilated
vsairy
3.6

Having fresh air moving into and out of a room

also suggests roomy space and overall openness
unstuffy
vsairy
4.3

Pleasantly fresh and easy to breathe in

adds a sense of spaciousness beyond mere freshness

Antonyms

crowded
222 1.0

Full of too many people to move or sit comfortably

stuffy
13 2.7

A room with little fresh air that feels uncomfortable to breathe in

Compounds

light and airy
2 3.4

Clothes and rooms that are not heavy or tight and feel fresh and open

airy-fairy
  • UK
1 8.8

Not practical and too much like a dream

How Airy

airy
13 2.3
roomy
24 2.1
stuffy
13 2.7
cramped
37 3.2

Surface Forms

airy positive
airier comparative
airiest superlative

Morphology

airy = air (transparent) = air + y

Direct adjectival formation from 'air' meaning atmosphere; the sense of being well-ventilated or spacious is literal and easily inferred.

Etymology

Airy comes from the word air ('air' or 'wind') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So an airy room is 'full of air' — open, fresh, and well ventilated.