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Meaning of AERIFORM

Pronunciation:  'ehru`form

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [adj]  resembling air or having the form of air
 
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 Synonyms: aerial, aery, airlike, airy, ethereal, gaseous, insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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