airdrawn

airdrawn

English

Etymology

air +‎ drawn

Adjective

airdrawn (not comparable)

1. visionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality
   • 1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (page 319)

     […] but there are some hints which, considering what afterwards did take place, lead me to suspect that even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes.

   • 1917, James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest (page 168)

     But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a vestryman who in appearance and speech and actions, and in essential beliefs, differed not at all from his associates […]