airy.

1. Spacious or pleasantly light, with a sense of freely moving air.

2. Light and delicate rather than dense or substantial.

3. Casually confident or unconcerned, sometimes too dismissive of a serious matter.

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Words that belong together

• airy room
• airy interior

On the page

Tall windows made the narrow room unexpectedly airy.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more airy; superlative most airy when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.