Adjective
1. in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air;
"aerial particles""small aerial creatures such as butterflies""aerial warfare""aerial photography""aerial cable cars"2. growing in air;
"aerial roots of a philodendron"3. 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"