airy

Examples

• All

• 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

V

ventilated

vsairy

8 3.6

Having fresh air moving into and out of a room

also suggests roomy space and overall openness

L

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

U

unstuffy

vsairy

4.3

Pleasantly fresh and easy to breathe in

adds a sense of spaciousness beyond mere freshness

Antonyms

C

crowded

296 1.0

Full of too many people to move or sit comfortably

S

stuffy

13 2.7

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

Compounds

L

light and airy

2 3.4

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

A

airy-fairy

• UK

1 8.8

Not practical and too much like a dream

How Airy

airy

2 2.3

roomy

20 2.1

stuffy

13 2.7

cramped

62 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology