'aerial' definitions:
Definition of 'aerial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Existing or living or growing or operating in the air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"
adjective
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" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
noun
A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn: forward pass, aerial]
noun
An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals [syn: antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial]
Synonyms of 'aerial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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