Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aeriform"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aeriform
adj 1: resembling air or having the form of air [syn: {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: {aerial}, {airy}, {aery}, {ethereal}]
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