adjective
- Informal.
- delicate or lovely: an airy-fairy actress; an airy-fairy nightgown.
- not based on reality or concerned with mundane affairs; unrealistic: airy-fairy ideas about spending a fortune that isn’t even his.
- Slang. effeminate; swishy.
adjective
- informal fanciful and unrealistican airy-fairy scheme
- delicate to the point of being insubstantial; light