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ethereal - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'ethereal' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ethereal [ a.]
- Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
- Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
- Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.

Meaning of 'ethereal' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . ethereal [ a]
Meaning (1):
- of or containing or dissolved in ether
Example in sentence:
  • ethereal solution
2 . ethereal [ s]
Meaning (2):
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
Example in sentence:
  • aerial fancies;
  • an airy apparition;
  • figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away;
  • physical rather than ethereal forms
Meaning (3):
- of heaven or the spirit
Example in sentence:
  • celestial peace;
  • ethereal melodies;
  • the supernal happiness of a quiet death
Meaning (4):
- characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
Example in sentence:
  • gossamer shading through his playing;
  • this smallest and most ethereal of birds

Nearby Words:

ethal ethane ethe ethel ethene ethenic ethenyl etheostomoid ether etherealism

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