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Miry vs Airy - What's the difference?

miry | airy |

As adjectives the difference between miry and airy

is that miry is relating to a mire; swampy, boggy while airy is consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

miry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
  • *:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), :
  • *:summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].

    • Synonyms

    * (like a mire) boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy

    Derived terms

    * miriness

    Anagrams

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    airy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
  • Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight.
  • Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.
  • Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
  • Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.
  • Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.
  • Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial.
  • Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
  • (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

    • Anagrams

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