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aerial - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | aerial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring in the air |
| Synonyms: | airy, atmospheric, ethereal, flying, lofty, vaporous, aeriform, aeronautical, birdlike, pneumatic, up above |
| Antonyms: | ground |
| Main Entry: | alpine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mountaintop; high altitude |
| Synonyms: | aerial, elevated, high, lofty, mountainous, rangy, soaring, towering, high-reaching, in the clouds, montane, snowcapped |
| Main Entry: | antenna |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appendages for sensing, usually on insects or electronics |
| Synonyms: | aerial, receiver, whip*, wire, bird snapper, bullwhip, ears, feelers, rabbit ears, sky wire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ethereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, heavenly |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, empyreal, vapory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, indelicate, worldly |
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
| Synonyms: | aerial, express, fleet, floating, mercurial, mobile, soaring, speedy, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, flapping, fluttering, gliding, hovering, on the wing, plumed, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
| Antonyms: | ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | insubstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, imaginary |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, chimerical, decrepit, ephemeral, false, fanciful, feeble, flimsy, fly-by-night*, fragile, frail, idle, illusory, immaterial, incorporeal, infirm, intangible, metaphysical, petty, poor, puny, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, imponderable, too little too late |
| Antonyms: | real, strong, substantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overhead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | up above |
| Synonyms: | above, aerial, aloft, atop, hanging, over, roof, upper, upward, in the sky, on high, overhanging, skyward |
| Antonyms: | below, underfoot |
| Main Entry: | soaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high |
| Synonyms: | aerial, elevated, flying, lofty, steep, towering, ascending, climbing, going through the ceiling, going through the roof, high-reaching, sky-high |
| Main Entry: | tenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, thin |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, attenuate, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, narrow, nebulous, questionable, rare, rarefied, shaky, sketchy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, attenuated, reedy, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick |
| Main Entry: | towering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge, excessive |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, colossal, elevated, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, fantastic, gigantic, great, high, immoderate, imperial, imposing, impressive, inordinate, intense, lofty, magnificent, massive, mighty, monumental, outstanding, paramount, preeminent, prodigious, soaring, stately, stupendous, sublime, superior, supreme, tall, transcendent, tremendous, ultimate, undue, skyscraping, spiring, surpassing, towery, unmatchable, unmeasurable |
| Antonyms: | little, minor, short, small, tiny, dwarfed |
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, ostensible, pretended, romantic, seeming, sham*, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, invented, notional, phantasmagoric, reachy, storybook, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forward pass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | football pass toward opponent's goal |
| Synonyms: | aerial, bomb, flare, pass, screen, screen pass, flare pass, pass pattern |
| Main Entry: | airy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to the atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | aerial, atmospheric, breezy, exposed, fresh, gaseous, gusty, light, lofty, vaporous, ventilated, windy, blowy, drafty, fluttering, out-of-doors, uncluttered, well-ventilated |
| Antonyms: | close, closed, oppressive, stuffy |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, weak |
| Synonyms: | aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, flimsy, fragile, frail, gauzy, gentle, graceful, mild, nice, pale, pastel, rare, select, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender, fine-grained, finespun, fracturable, frangible, gossamery, hairline, muted, recherché, shatterable, shattery |
| Antonyms: | coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong |
| Main Entry: | high |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tall; at a great distance aloft |
| Synonyms: | aerial, alpine, big, colossal, elevated, eminent, flying, formidable, giant, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, lofty, long, soaring, steep, towering, tremendous, altitudinous, high rise, high-reaching, hovering, sky-high, sky-scraping, uplifted, upraised |
| Antonyms: | low, lowly, short, stunted, dwarfed |
| Main Entry: | lofty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high, elevated |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, raised, soaring, tall, towering, high-rise, lifted, sky-high, skyscraping, skyward, spiring |
| Antonyms: | below, beneath, low |
| Main Entry: | atmospheric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of or in the atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, ethereal, barometrical, baroscopic, climatic, meteorological |
| Antonyms: | down-to-earth, grounded |
| Main Entry: | elevated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | raised up |
| Synonyms: | aerial, high, raised, stately, tall, towering, high-rise, lifted, upheaved, uplifted, upraised, uprisen |
| Antonyms: | base, dropped, lowly, decreased, lessened, lowered |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, imponderable, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
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