The Clue
Not stifling (4 letter answer)
The Answer
AIRY
Tags
Notes
The answer AIRY is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
Breezy
Buoyant
Delicate
Ethereal
Flippant
Insubstantial
Light
Lighthearted
Open
Sprightly
Towering
Unsubstantial
Ventilated
Vivacious
Hardly stuffy
Light as a feather
Light or lighthearted
Light and open
Light; unsubstantial
Like a breezeway
Like gossamer
Open to breezes
Subject to breezes
Well ventilated
Well-ventilated
Definition
AIRY as an adjective:
1. (aired, airy) = open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms"
2. (airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy) = not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
3. having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"
4. (aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal) = 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"