Usually means: Impractical, unrealistic, and fancifully idealistic.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. airy-fairy: Merriam-Webster
  2. airy-fairy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. airy-fairy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. airy-fairy, airy-fairy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. airy-fairy: Wordnik
  6. airy-fairy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. airy-fairy: Wiktionary
  8. airy-fairy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. airy-fairy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. airy-fairy: Dictionary.com
  11. airy-fairy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. airy-fairy: Merriam-Webster

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  1. airy-fairy: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. airy-fairy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. airy-fairy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. airy-fairy: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of airy fairy [(informal, somewhat derogatory) Insubstantial.]

Similar:
pixieish, flouffy, off with the fairies, squirrely, airyated, faky, naif, snowflakey, featherheaded, fudgey, more...

Opposite:
practical, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact

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Similar:
pixieish, flouffy, off with the fairies, squirrely, airyated, faky, naif, snowflakey, featherheaded, fudgey, more...

Opposite:
practical, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact



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