- aerial - 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"
Antonym: land (indirect, via sea, air)
Antonym: sea (indirect, via air, land)
- aerial - growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"
Antonym: land (indirect, via sea, air)
Antonym: sea (indirect, via air, land)
- 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"
Antonyms: substantial, real, material (indirect, via insubstantial)
- forward pass, aerial - a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer
--1 is a kind of pass, passing play, passing game, passing
--1 has particulars: flare pass, flare; screen pass - antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial - an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
--2 is a kind of electrical device
--2 is a part of receiver, receiving system; transmitter, sender
--2 has particulars:dipole, dipole antenna; directional antenna; omnidirectional antenna, nondirectional antenna