aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. See
Air.]
1. Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or
frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air;
performed in the air; as, a["e]rial regions or currents;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial
spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin.
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2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as
opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or
underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
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5. Light as air; ethereal.
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6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
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Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.]
--Ure.
Aerial perspective. See Perspective.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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108 Moby Thesaurus words for "aerial":
Olympian, aerials, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerophysical, aerospace,
aerostatic, aerotechnical, aery, air-built, air-conscious,
air-minded, air-wise, airish, airlike, airsick, airworthy, airy,
alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, aspiring, atmospheric,
aviational, breezy, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven,
colossal, directional antenna, dish, dominating, doublet, elevated,
eminent, ethereal, exalted, exposed, fuming, fumy, gaseous,
gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, haughty, high, high-pitched,
high-reaching, high-set, high-up, immaterial, impalpable,
imperceptible, imponderable, incorporeal, light, lofty, mast,
mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, monumental, mounting,
open-air, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene,
oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, pneumatic, prominent, reeking,
reeky, reflector, rhombic antenna, roomy, skyscraping, smoking,
smoky, soaring, spiring, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime,
superlative, supernal, topless, toplofty, topping, tower, towering,
towery, transmitting antenna, tropospheric, uplifted, upreared,
vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, wave antenna
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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