airy
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˈɛəri/
:
irrealista
- Find yourself a profession, get into politics, do something that's real, not this airy nonsense, you know, with your head up in the clouds.
Find yourself a profession, get into politics, do something that's real, not this airy nonsense, you know, with your head up in the clouds.
- Find yourself a profession, get into politics, do something that's real, not this airy nonsense, you know, with your head up in the clouds.
- This doesn't mean that it's some sort of, you know, airy, you know, very vague thing that's connecting us all together in one big mentality.
- And if they're not, it's, again, it's just this kind of airy fairy kind of vague idea.
- And I want to honor you with a real day, not just the, the airy fairy woo woo stuff.
- And you know what, sorry to seem airy fairy, but the universe is going to contribute to that because you are now operating at a higher vibration.
Examples
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There was a tough reasonableness to her that resisted airy, Utopian nonsense.
Academic text (2011) -
The question it raised was too big for microbiologists, too biological for climatologists, and too airy for oceanographers.
Academic text (2009) -
We forget that love is not some kind of airy feeling, right?
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How could we build on such airy nothingness?
Fiction book (1997) -
I just wanted to get on with it without bogging down in all this airy-fairy talk.
Fiction book (1995) -
We should focus on practical solutions rather than getting lost in airy dreams about idealism.
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His proposal was filled with airy ideas that lacked any concrete plans for implementation.
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During the meeting, she dismissed his airy suggestions as unrealistic and not grounded in reality.
Synonyms
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4.0
Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life
38
5.3
Not sensible or likely to work in real life
36
7.4
Ideas or plans that are not practical and unlikely to work
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8.8
Not practical and too much like a dream
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Etymology
Airy comes from air ('air') plus -y 'full of', and because air is light and not heavy, airy also came to mean 'not solid or serious'. So an airy plan is one that sounds nice but is unlikely to work in reality.