Air

Noun

 * 1)  The atmospheric substance above the surface of the earth which animals breathe, formerly considered to be a single substance, one of the four basic elements of ancient philosophy and one of the five basic elements of Eastern traditions.
 * 2)  Now understood as the mixture of gases comprising the earth's atmosphere.
 * 3) with the The apparently open space above the ground; the mass of this substance around the earth.
 * 4) A feeling or sense.
 * 5)  Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
 * 6)  A song, especially a solo; an aria.
 * 7)  Nothing; absence of anything.
 * 8)  An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
 * 9)  Any specific gas.
 * 10)  A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
 * 11)  A jump in which one becomes airborne.

Verb

 * 1) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
 * 2) To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
 * 3) To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
 * 4) To broadcast, as with a television show.

Adjectives for Air

 * (atmosphere) crisp; healthful; bracing; balmy;  salt; mountain; vitalizing; tingling; invigorating; pungent; exhilarating; sparkling; scented; lofty; comfortable; luminous; polluted; vapory;  unbreathed;  troublous; sultry; jocund; frosty; ambient; stifling; glittering; precipitant; pernicious; darkened; shadowed;  vital; dusky;  misty; hushed; viewless;  frigid;  salubrious;  tepid; muffled; wholesome; vibrant; vacant; raw; impalpable; thill;  strangling; nocturnal; atmospheric;  rarefied;   enervating;  delicious; genial; cleft; unjaded; foggy;  fermenting; heavy; nipping; chilled; vivifying; inter-lunar; brisk; emerald; buoyant;  singing; deoxidized; dewy; trackless; stinking; fetid; starry;  caressant; scorching; tranquil; spiced; sharp; soothing; health-giving; circulating; conditioned; compressed; illimitable;  translucent; moon-struck;  wanton; sulphurous; pellucid; miasmic; penetrating; oppressive; desolate; pale; filtered; humidified;  twilight;  windless;  tempest-charged; electric; upper; sanctified; cloudless; greedy; wholesome;  dreamy; mineral;  limpid; startled;  sun-sweetened;  purgatorial;  inclement;  pestilential; highland;  laughing; murky;  soul-sustaining;  heaven-high; infected; mellow; free; summering; mouldy; impregnated; vitiated; toxic; acrid; moon-tide;  dust-scented;  crystalline;  smoke-saturated; balsam-laden; forest-scented; rain-swept; clammy; roseate; lifeless; aromatic; ruffled; buxom; clinging; glimmering; pleasant; tropic; perfumed;  empyreal; luscious; blue; stagnant; spreading; eddying; transparent; yielding.
 * (attitude) racy; ironical;  professional;  coquettish; hesitating; surly; monastic; elegant; proud; condescending; saucy; insouciant; youthful; carefree; confident; joyous; buoyant; hospitable;  grotesque;  perky;  deliberate;  abstracted;  mystic;  druid-like;   prehistoric; unctuous;  becoming;  serious;  protecting; perplexed; ardent; businesslike; inquiring; passionate; prosperous: dolorous: pathetic; discomfited; prophetic; judicial; desperate; peculiar;  proprietary;  confidential;  indefinable;  plaintive;  dejected;  distant;  self-confident; rustic; cold; patient; fantastical; lackadaisical; pouting;  well-bred;  encouraging;  calm;  sweet;  polished;  devilish; dashing; unaffected; imposing; disappointed; striking; distinguished; excited; tragic; undaunted; artless; pompous; shamed; furtive; playful; genteel; vyheedling; pensive; citified;  injured;  sedate; wanton;  roguish; insulted;   contrite;   womanly;   virginal; frivolous; feline; jaunty;  meditative;  bewitching; sinister; forbidding; portentous; sagacious; riotous; appreciative; courteous; unapologetic;  candid;  youthful;  pitiless; voluptuous;  simple;   languid;  reserved; threatening; imperious; intellectual; reminiscent;  glib;  deprecating;  intolerant;  patronizing;  passionless;  composed;  comic; engaging; celestial; virtuous; elegant; exquisite;  masterful;  aggressive;  knowing; shrewd; appraising; sophisticated; elaborate;  obedient;  tranquil;  staid;  quizzical; enigmatic;  lofty;  supercilious;  possessive; matter-of-fact; nonchalant; detached; insolent;  ominous;   dissipated;  moody;  irrational;  belligerent;  calculating;  obstinate; irritating;  scandalized;  dogged;  harassed; martyred; injured;  distraught; shrinking; crestfallen; disconcerted; motherly;  suave; exotic;  masculine;  incorrigible; colloquial; cherubic;  critical;  indulgent;  salubrious; appreciative;  deferential;  disarming;  sly; accommodating; grandiose; spiritual; majestic.
 * (tune)wizard; stirring; martial; light;  melancholy;  flippant; patriotic;  lilting;  mournful; plaintive; persistent; haunting; nostalgic; memorable; heartfelt; militant.

Verbs for Air

 * (general) admit; ascend into; bask in; beat; blacken; bore  through;  build  in; change;  charge;  chokewith  dust; compose; compress; condition; consume; cool; dance in; darken; dart through; deprive of; detect in; diffuse; disappear into thin; dissipate into; distribute; drink; embalmwith;  embrace; exhale; exhaust; expel; expose to; fan; float through; flush; hallow; heave into; hurtle through; impregnate; infect; inflame; inhale; inject; liquidize; load; lope into; melt into thin; mix with; mount into;  navigate;  penetrate; perfume; permeate; pervade; pierce; purge; purify; pursue in; putrefy; ravish; remove from; rend; ride; ripple; rise into; rule; sail in; saturate; scent; seep into; shelter from; smite; sniff; split; stir; subject to; support in; surge into; suspend in; sweep; taint; tinge; vanish into; vitiate; warm; blows; circles; circulates;  consists  of; conveys; diffuses ; expands ; fans ; lulls ; murmurs;  palpitates;  reeks;  resounds; reverberates; rings; ripples; rushes by; scintillates; seeps in; sighs;  singes; stirs; surges in; surrounds; swirls; thickens; throbs; trembles; whispers ; whistles.
 * (attitude) acquaint with; address with; adopt; affect; ape; assume; bearof; communicate; describe; draw up with; feign; give s to; invest with; manifest; treat with;  unfold; excites; pleases.
 * (tune) accompany; arrange; chorus; compose; harmonize; hum; play; recognize; sing; spoil; synchronize; whistle; charms; cheers; enchants; expresses; gladdens; moves; stirs.

Synonyms for Air
lift, atmosphere, aura, nimbus, manner, look, demeanor, mien, style, appearance, carriage, behavior, fashion, bearing.

Related terms

 * aerate
 * aero-
 * aria

Thesaurus
action; actions; activity; acts; address; advertise; aerate; aerodynamics; aerospace; aerosphere; affectation; air; air hole; air out; air pocket; air-condition; air-cool; airify; airspace; airy nothing; analyze; aria; atmosphere; atom; atomic particles; aura; azure; bearing; behavior; behavior pattern; behavioral norm; behavioral science; blazon forth; blue sky; brandish; break it to; break the news; breathe; breeze; broach; broadcast; brow; brute matter; bubble; building block; bump; caelum; canopy; canopy of heaven; canto; cantus; canvass; carriage; cast; cast of countenance; ceiling; cerulean; chaff; chemical element; chip; climate; cobweb; color; come out with; comment upon; complexion; component; comportment; conduct; confide; confide to; consider; constituent; controvert; cooling breeze; cope; cork; countenance; cross-ventilate; crosswind; culture pattern; custom; dangle; deal with; debate; declare; deliberate; deliberate upon; demeanor; demonstrate; deportment; descant; discourse about; discover; discuss; display; divulgate; divulge; doing; doings; down; dust; earth; element; elementary particle; elementary unit; emblazon; empty space; empyrean; ether; evulgate; examine; exchange views; exhibit; face; facial appearance; fairy; fan; favor; favorable wind; feather; feature; features; feel; feeling; fire; firmament; flash; flaunt; flourish; flue; fluff; fluid; foam; fog; folkway; freshen; front; froth; fundamental particle; fuzz; gale; garb; gas; gentle wind; gestures; give; give out; give vent to; go into; goings-on; gossamer; guise; halogen gas; handle; head wind; heaven; heavens; high-pressure area; hold up; hole; hyaline; hyle; hypostasis; illusion; inert gas; investigate; ionosphere; jetstream; knock around; lay; let get around; let in on; let out; lift; lifts; light air; light breeze; light wind; line; lineaments; lines; looks; low-pressure area; maintien; make known; make public; manifest; manner; manners; material; material world; materiality; matter; measure; melodia; melodic line; melody; method; methodology; methods; mien; milieu; mist; moderate breeze; modus vivendi; molecule; monad; mote; motions; movements; moves; natural world; nature; noise abroad; note; observable behavior; ocean breeze; onshore breeze; open up; out with; overcast; overtone; oxygenate; oxygenize; parade; pass under review; pattern; phantom; physical world; physiognomy; plenum; pneumatics; pocket; poise; port; pose; posture; practice; praxis; presence; procedure; proceeding; proclaim; publish; put; put forth; put forward; put out; quality; rap; reason; reason about; reason the point; refrain; refresh; reveal; review; roughness; sea breeze; sense; set; shadow; sift; sky; smoke; social science; softblowing wind; solo; solo part; song; soprano part; soup; space; spirit; sponge; sport; spume; stance; starry heaven; state; strain; stratosphere; straw; study; stuff; style; substance; substratosphere; substratum; tactics; tail wind; take up; talk; talk about; talk of; talk over; tell; the blue; the blue serene; the four elements; thin air; thistledown; thresh out; tone; traits; treat; treble; tropopause; troposphere; trough; trumpet; trumpet forth; tune; turbulence; turn; undertone; unit of being; utter; vapor; vault; vault of heaven; vaunt; vent; ventilate; visage; visibility; visibility zero; water; wave; way; way of life; ways; welkin; wind; winnow; zephyr

Etymology
From air, eir "gas, atmosphere" from  aeir:, eyer:,  aire:, eir:, from  aer:, from  ἀήρ:. Displaced native Middle English luft, lift "air" (from Old English lyft "air, atmosphere"), Middle English loft "air, upper region" (from Old Norse lopt "air, sky, loft"). More at lift, loft.

Pronunciation



 * ; Eire