Meaning of AERIFORM
Pronunciation: | | 'ehru`form
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] resembling air or having the form of air
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| Synonyms: | | aerial, aery, airlike, airy, ethereal, gaseous, insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial |
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| Definition: | | \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.
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