Antonyms of adj aeriform

2 senses of aeriform

Sense 1
aeriform, airlike -- (resembling air or having the form of air)

INDIRECT (VIA liquid, gaseous) -> solid -- (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state")
INDIRECT (VIA gaseous, solid) -> liquid -- (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances")

Sense 2
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")

INDIRECT (VIA insubstantial) -> substantial, real, material -- (having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare)

Similarity of adj aeriform

2 senses of aeriform

Sense 1
aeriform, airlike -- (resembling air or having the form of air)
       => gaseous (vs. solid) (vs. liquid) -- (existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state")

Sense 2
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")
       => insubstantial (vs. substantial), unsubstantial, unreal -- (lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon")

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