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airy

adjective
  1. Of or relating to air: aerial, atmospheric, pneumatic. See breath, high
  2. Imposingly high: aerial, lofty, sky-high, soaring, towering. See high
  3. Exposed to or characterized by the presence of freely circulating air or wind: blowy, breezy, gusty, windy. See breath
  4. So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film: aerial, aery, diaphanous, ethereal, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, sheer 2, transparent, vaporous, vapory. See thick
  5. Displaying light-hearted nonchalance: breezy, buoyant, debonair, jaunty. Informal: corky. Idiom: free and easy. See attitude, careful, good

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