airily

Definition of Airily in English :

1. airily, flippantly

in a flippant manner

Example Sentences:
'he answered the reporters' questions flippantly'
'this cannot be airily explained to your children'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Airily

adverb

1.

in a jaunty or high-spirited manner

2.

in a light or delicate manner

adverb

in an airy, or lighthearted, manner; jauntily; breezily

adj. air·i·er, air·i·est

1.

a. Open to or allowing in air; breezy or drafty: "the airy bungalows of the island's top officials" (Amitav Ghosh).

b. Extensive in area or height; spacious: "An open floor plan made bright and airy by soaring ceilings" (Country Living).

2. High in the air; lofty: airy skyscrapers.

3. Performed in the air; aerial.

4. Resembling or evocative of air, especially:

a. Having little or no substance; thin or immaterial: an airy apparition.

b. Light or delicate: an airy dress.

5. Speculative, impractical, or vacuous: airy notions of human perfectibility.

6. Haughty or affected: dismissed us with an airy wave of the hand.

7. Chiefly Irish Light-hearted; merry.

8. Archaic Of, relating to, or having the constitution of air.