- airy-fairy adj
- ['ɛərɪ'fɛərɪ]
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airy fairy — adj BrE informal not sensible or practical ▪ airy fairy ideas … Dictionary of contemporary English
airy-fairy — ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone s ideas as airy fairy, you are critical of them because you think the ideas are vague, impractical, and unrealistic. [BRIT] ...their airy fairy principles … English dictionary
airy-fairy — [er′ēfer′ē] adj. Chiefly Brit. 1. a) fairylike; graceful; delicate b) affected, mannered, etc. 2. not realistic; impractical; visionary … English World dictionary
airy-fairy — /air ee fair ee/, adj. 1. Informal. a. delicate or lovely: an airy fairy actress; an airy fairy nightgown. b. not based on reality or concerned with mundane affairs; unrealistic: airy fairy ideas about spending a fortune that isn t even his. 2.… … Universalium
airy-fairy — air′y fair′y adj. 1) cvb brit. delicate or lovely 2) brit. unrealistic: airy fairy ideas about winning the sweepstakes[/ex] • Etymology: 1830 … From formal English to slang
airy fairy — adj. unreal, not based on reality (Informal ); delicate (British usage) … English contemporary dictionary
airy-fairy — Adj. Lacking in strength, insubstantial. Informal … English slang and colloquialisms
airy — (adj.) late 14c., of the air, made of air, from AIR (Cf. air) (n.1) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning breezy is attested from 1590s; that of lively is from 1640s. Sense of vain, unsubstantial is from 1580s. Disparaging airy fairy is attested from 1920… … Etymology dictionary
airy — adj. (airier, airiest) 1 well ventilated, breezy. 2 flippant, superficial. 3 a light as air. b graceful, delicate. 4 insubstantial, ethereal, immaterial. Phrases and idioms: airy fairy colloq. unrealistic, impractical, foolishly idealistic.… … Useful english dictionary
unsubstantial — adj 1. insubstantial, fanciful, fancied, imaginary, imagined, chimerical, unreal, visionary, quixotic; airy, vaporous, wild, idle, empty; fantastic, make believe, mythical, fairy tale, fictitious, made up; illusory, illusive, delusive, false,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Utopian — adj 1. idealistic, perfect, ideal, Inf. dream, pie in the sky; fantasy, imaginary, imagined, fanciful, fancied, chimerical, unreal, illusory, visionary, quixotic; airy, vaporous, unsubstantial, insubstantial, wild, idle; fictitious, made up, make … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
