Airy

Definition: Airy

Airy

Adjective

1. Open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms".

2. Not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich".

3. Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains".

4. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "airy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Airy

Air

Atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform; meteorological; weatherwise.

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Gaseity

Adjective: gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent.

Hope

Castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage; (fallacies of vision); fond hope.

Hopelessness

Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus.

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Levity

Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Unsubstantiality

Visionary; (imaginary); immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.

Crosswords: Airy

Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word by thee, old Capulet, and you, Montague if ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Airy Fairy Lillian Tries On Her New Corsets (1905)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Airy Cages (reference)

• Airy Hall (reference)

• Airy Plumeflights: A Beginner's Guide to Celtic Script and Design (reference)

• Airy tales (reference)

• Germantown, 1683-1933: History of the People of Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Airy 241-626 Contractor's Kit: Brad Gun & Stapler (reference)

• Airy AZA5016S Staplemate (reference)

• Airy Sales Corp 0251C 5/8" to 2" Brad Nail Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Mighty oaks and spanish moss, remnants of the ante-bellum South at Airy Hall Plantation. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Interior, second floor, west side. Photograph by Jet Lowe, September 1981. (Reproduction Number: HABS, COLO, 42-DOL.V,4A-10) This wooden dairy barn, built in 1918, is the largest outbuilding on the Ritter Ranch, once the most technologically advanced ranch in the Lower Dolores Valley of Colorado. Divided crosswise by a central breezeway on the first floor and lengthwise by two rows of wooden poles supporting the roof, the barn has an airy and peaceful hayloft shown here that contrasts sharply with the complicated machinery of the work area below. The barn featured a metal manure car that ran along a track--just one of the many mechanical devices used at this state-of-the-art farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Holy Cross Church, Mt. Airy Ave. and Boyer St., Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hither I come from my airy home, afar in the silver moon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Under the airy touch of the child, the instrument actually seemed to warble, like a bird

Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety

He heard the airy dialogues of the nests bidding each other good night in the elms of the Champs Elysees

This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Ballooning shapes, layered skirts, knee-length hemlines, sarongs and wrap skirts, apron-style skirts, bias cut skirts, long drawstring skirts, post-war new look wide, fluid and airy skirts, long skirts with a detachable pocket strap. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "airy": Airy disk ♦ airy fairy ♦ Airy function ♦ Airy phase ♦ airy sign ♦ Airy stress function ♦ Mount Airy. Additional references.

Beginning with "airy": airy-faerie, airy-fairy.

Afrikaans

dun (gaunt, lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Albanian

i shtirë (affected, camp, counterfeit, feigned, folksy, hollow, hypocritical, precious), i lehtë (downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i gëzuar (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly), i ajrosur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجز فى الجو, ‏ملىء بالهواء, ‏مرح (airiness, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏هوائي (aerial, aeriform, antenna, overhead, pneumatic), ‏وهمي (airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏رشيق (active, agile, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), ‏شاهق (alpine, eminent, steep, tall, towering), ‏بهيج (cheerful, convivial, festive, glad, happy, lovely, merry, shiny, unstressed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ефирен (aerial, ethereal, fairy, gossamer), повърхностен (blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty), празен (airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), проветрив, проветрен, безгрижен (carefree, careless, devil may care, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile), лекомислен (airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking), самодоволен (bighead, cock-a-hoop, complacent, jaunty, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug), надменен (aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), високомерен (cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), весел (blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), въздушен (aeolian, aerial, aeriform, air, ethereal, overhead, sky-borne, skyey, telpher), във въздуха, грациозен (graceful, lightsome, svelte, sylph-like, willowy), лек (bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial). (various references)

Chinese 

通风 (aeration, Breezy, Ventilate, Ventilated, Ventilating), 通風 (ventilate, ventilation). (various references)

Czech

vzdušný (aerial, skyey), vìtrný (blustery, breezy, gusty, windy), povrchní (casual, cheap, desultory, dollish, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, perfunctory, scrappy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, superficial), nadýchaný (fluffy), lehkomyslný (featherbrained, featherheaded, frivolous, heedless, light minded, reckless), ledabyle, hravý (gamesome, kittenish, playful, sportful, sportive, tricksy), živý (active, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Danish

Airys spændingsfunktion (Airy stress function), Airy's skive (Airy disk, Airy's disk, diffraction disk), airy-funktioner (Airy function), luftfase (Airy phase). (various references)

Dutch

luchtig (airily, airy-fairy, flighty, fresh, gaunt, impulsive, lean, loose, recent, sandy, slender, thin), iel (dainty, delicate, fine, loose, refined, sandy), dungezaaid (sporadic), dun (fluid, gaunt, lean, liquid, slender, thin), ýl (haste). (various references)

Esperanto

aeruma. (various references)

Faeroese

kátur (adroit, agile, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, keen, merry, petulant). (various references)

Farsi 

پوچ (Absurd, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain, Void), هوامانند, هواءی (Aerial, Atmospheric, Pneumatic), واهی (Romantic, Unreal, Unrealistic, Unsubstantial(Ity)), خودنما (Blatant, Cocky, Jaunty, Ostentatious, Perky, Priggish, Showy), باروح (Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references)

Finnish

ilmava (roomy, spacious). (various references)

French

agréable, vaine, très haut, impalpable, imaginaire (airy fairy), farfelu (airy fairy), désinvolte, clair et spacieux. (various references)

German

luftig (aerial, blowy, breezier, breezy, light), lässig (careless, carelessly, casual, cool, easy going, languid, languidly, negligently, nonchalant, nonchalantly, offhand, remiss, remissly). (various references)

Greek 

χαροπόσ (gleeful, gleesome, jocund, jolly, joyous), εναέριοσ (aerial), ευάεροσ, ευάερος, άυλος, αέριοσ (aerial), απερίσκεπτος (foolhardy, impetuous, indiscreet, rash, reckless, thoughtless). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאורר (breezy, fan, ventilated, ventilator), אוירי (aerial, atmospheric, pneumatic), אורירי. (various references)

Hungarian

könnyed (colloquial, ethereal, facile, fluent, free and easy, graceful, jaunty, light, lightsome, off hand, off-handed, tripping). (various references)

Indonesian

tak nyata, halus (delicate), dibuat-buat (mannered), banyak udara. (various references)

Italian

arioso, arieggiato, aerato, ventilato (airless), superficiale (cosmetic, external, facile, perfunctory, shallow, sketchily, skin deep, superficial), spensierato (carefree, happy go lucky, light hearted, thoughtless, unworried), noncurante (careless, casual, indifferent, irrespective, negligent), gaio (blithesome, frolicsome, gay, jolly, lightsome, merry, mirthful, rorty, wanton), etereo (aerial, ethereal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フロギストン説 (booing, booster, booth, bouquet, bouquet garni, CFC, cheese, chlorofluorohydrocarbon, FEP, floppy, floppy disk, Florida, florigen, florist, fluke, fluon gas, fluorocarbon, Freon, frock, frock coat, frog, frogman, front, front office, front page, front wheel drive, front-end, front-end processor, frontier, frontier spirit, frost, light, phlogiston theory, windscreen, windshield). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フワフワ (light). (various references)

Manx

aeroil (jaunty, volatile), aeragh (aerated, atmospheric, carefree, coltish, etherial, jaunty). (various references)

Pig Latin

airyay.(various references)

Portuguese

arejado (ventilated), aéreo (aerial, aery, etherial, irresponsible, overground, overhead, vague), ténue (gossamer, tenuous, thin), irreal (artificial, dreamlike, hollow, insubstantial, notional, phantasmal, shadowy, unreal, visional), imaginário (aerial, etherial, fancy, fantastic, fictional, notional, of fantasy, overground, unreal), gracioso (beautiful, benign, canny, comely, dainty, elegant, goodly, graceful, gracious, handsome, jimp, lightsome, lovely, seemly, slender, slim, well-turned, willowy, witty), etéreo (aerial, aery, ethereal, etherial, overground), delicado (attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, fine, flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingerly, kid-glove, kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out-and-out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made). (various references)

Romanian

atmosferizat (breezy), aeros, aerisit (breezy), aerian (aerial, aeriform, aery, breezy, ethereal, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, hazy, skyey, thin, unsubstantial), vaporos (aery, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, steamy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), uşuratic (airily, careless, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, glib, light minded, light-mindedly, thoughtless, trifling, volatile), iluzoriu (apparent, deceitful, elusory, illusive, illusory, vain), eteric (ethereal). (various references)

Russian 

эфирный (aery, ethereal), воздушный (aerial, aeriform, air, ethereal, etherial, open-wire, overhead), легкий (cheap, cushy, delicate, easy, easygoing, effortless, ethereal, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamery, light, light weight, lightsome, lightweight, mild, potty, runaway, sketchy, toilless, unlabored, unlaboured), просторный (ample, capacious, commodious, loose, rangy, roomy, spacious, wide), изящный (dainty, delicate, dinky, distingue, dressy, elegant, fine, jimp, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, polite, refined, slim, slinky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vazdušast (aeriform, imaginary, light, puffy, unreal). (various references)

Spanish

alegre (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy), airoso (charming, graceful, jaunty), aireado, vanidoso (vain), pretencioso (artsy-craftsy, Arty, arty-crafty, conceited, exacting, exactingly, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious), ligero (agile, double quick, facile, faint, fast, feathery, flippant, gentle, hasty, light, light-handed, lightly, lightweight, lithe, mild, quick, quickly, quiet, rakish, remote, springy, swift, thin, twinkling), frívolo (flighty, fribble, frivolous, giddy, skittish, trifling, trivial, trumpery), etério, espacioso (capacious, roomy, slow, spacious). (various references)

Swedish

luftig (diaphanous, fluffy, light, yeasty). (various references)

Turkish

neşeli (animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), hayali (aerial, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary), havalı (dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), havadar (spacious), hafif (blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), gevşek (crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), boş (barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

жвавий (active, agile, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), повітряний (aerial, aery, air, air raid, overhead), пустий (addle, bald, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, frothy, otiose, sounding, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), пустотливий (arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky), безжурний (cheerful, easygoing, light hearted, lightsome), божественний (ambrosial, celestial, divine, godlike, godly, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernal, supernatural), легкий (aerial, cushy, easy, effortless, facile, gossamer, light, potty), повний повітря, ефірний (aerial, aery, ethereal, etheric), фантастичний (arabesque, chimerical, crackpot, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, moonshiny, mythic, mythical, romantic), нереальний (aerial, aeriform, delusive, delusory, imaginary, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous), вигаданий (assumed, fabled, feigned, fictional, fictitious, make believe, mythic, mythical), витончений (attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), веселий (blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), вітряний (blowing, blowy, gusty, windy), граціозний (graceful, light, lightsome, sylphlike), легковажний (careless, daft, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, lightsome, puerile, volatile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui nhộn thảnh thơi (airily), uyển chuyển vui, ung dung hão, thoải mái (airily, comfortable, easily, easy, finger, off-hand, off-handed), thoáng gió, thiếu nghiêm túc (airily), thông khí, lộng gió vô hình, hời hợt (perfunctory, shallow, superficial), duyên dáng (charming, comely, graceful, ingratiatingly, personable, smart, well-favoured, well-looking), ở trên cao thoáng khí. (various references)

Welsh

awyrol (aerial). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "airy": dairy, fairy, glairy, hairy, nondairy. (additional references)

Words containing "airy": dairying, dairyings, dairymaid, dairymaids, dairyman, dairymen, fairyism, fairyisms, fairyland, fairylands, fairylike. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Airy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaby, Aarg, Abiru, abiy, acry, aeiry, agry, aiary, Aidrie, Aidy, aiery, aify, aily, aimy, ainy, Aira, airc, aird, aire, airey, airi, airia, airie, airiel, airn, airny, Airo, airt, aity, aiy, Aiya, alia, anry, aoery, apry, aqire, areby, Arey, ariary, aridy, ariq, arity, Arix, Arry, ary, aubry, audry, audy, aunry, aurie, aviry, axire, ayery, Aziru, cairry, cairy, eiry, eury, hiry, Iapyx, Iriri, iry, Kabiri, lairy, liry, mairy, nairy, pairy, Sairey, tairy, wairy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: air, ray, ria, rya, yar.

-2 letters: ai, ar, ay, ya.

+1 letter: dairy, diary, fairy, hairy, rainy, riyal, yaird.

+2 letters: aerify, aerily, airily, airway, apiary, aridly, artily, aviary, binary, brainy, briary, cairny, fairly, friary, glairy, grainy, hydria, myriad, myrica, papyri, parity, piracy, piraya, pyuria, racily, ramify, rarify, rarity, ratify, raying, riyals, vivary, warily, yairds, yttria.

+3 letters: acridly, acrylic, airplay, airways, angrily, aridity, bairnly, barytic, bilayer, biliary, biparty, braying, carnify, charily, charity, ciliary, clarify, clarity, clayier, crazily, cyprian, diarchy, dietary, draying, dryadic, dysuria, fairway, frailly, frailty, fraying, friarly, gratify, gravity, graying, grayish, hardily, hayrick, hayride, haywire, hoarily, hydriae, imagery, inlayer, irately, jaybird, lairdly, laniary, library, lyrical, midyear, miliary, myriads, myricas, olivary, orality, ostiary, pirayas, piscary, praying, primacy, primary, privacy, pyralid, pyramid, pyrexia, pyurias, quinary, rabbity, rabidly, railway, rainily, raisiny, rapidly, raucity, raylike, readily, reality, retiary, riantly, rivalry, rufiyaa, satyric, satyrid, scarify, scarily, syringa, tardily, tearily, topiary, trinary, trysail, unitary, urinary, variety, varsity, varying, vicarly, virally, virelay, wearily, whipray, wireway, yarding, yarning, yttrias.