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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. resembling air or having the form of air;
[syn: aeriform, airlike]

2. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air;
- Example: "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle
- Example: "aerial fancies"
- Example: "an airy apparition"
- Example: "physical rather than ethereal forms"
[syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aeriform \A"["e]r*i*form\ (?; 277), a. [L. a["e]r air + -form: cf. F. a['e]riforme.] Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

aeriform adj 1: resembling air or having the form of air [syn: aeriform, airlike] 2: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]