About The Word Ethereal
Learn about the word Ethereal to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Ethereal definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Ethereal
| Ethereal Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Ethereal?
[adj] 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"
[adj] characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing" [adj] of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [adj] (chemistry) of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ethereal: aerial | aeriform | aery | airy | celestial | delicate | gossamer | heavenly | insubstantial | supernal | unreal | unsubstantial Related Terms | Find terms related to Ethereal: adulterated | aerial | aeriform | aerodynamic | aerostatic | aery | air-built | airish | airlike | airy | alfresco | altitudinous | ascending | asomatous | aspiring | astral | atmospheric | attenuate | attenuated | beatific | beatified | blessed | bodiless | boyish | breezy | bubbly | celestial | chimeric | chimerical | cloud-born | cloud-built | cloud-woven | colossal | cut | decarnate | decarnated | delicate | diaphanous | dilute | diluted | discarnate | disembodied | dominating | downy | dreamlike | ectoplasmic | elevated | Elysian | eminent | empyreal | empyrean | etheric | exalted | exposed | extramundane | extraterrestrial | fanciful | fatuitous | fatuous | feathery | filmy | fine | fine-drawn | finespun | flimsy | fluffy | foamy | fragile | frail | from on high | frothy | fuming | fumy | gaseous | gasified | gasiform | gaslike | gassy | gauzy | ghostish | ghostlike | ghostly | ghosty | girlish | glorified | gossamer | gossamery | gracile | haughty | heavenly | high | high-pitched | high-reaching | high-set | high-up | illusory | imaginary | immaterial | impalpable | imponderable | imponderous | in glory | incorporate | incorporeal | insubstantial | intangible | lacy | leger | light | light as air | lighter than vanity | lofty | mephitic | miasmal | miasmatic | miasmic | misty | monumental | mounting | mousse | nonmaterial | nonphysical | occult | Olympian | open-air | otherworldly | outtopping | overlooking | overtopping | oxyacetylene | oxygenous | ozonic | papery | paradisaic | paradisal | paradisiac | paradisic | phantasmal | phantasmic | phantom | phantomic | phantomlike | pneumatic | prominent | psychic | rare | rarefied | reeking | reeky | roomy | shadowy | slender | slenderish | slight | slight-made | slim | slimmish | slinky | small | smoking | smoky | soaring | souffle | specterlike | spectral | spiring | spiritual | spirituous | steaming | steamy | steep | sublime | subtile | subtle | superlative | supernal | supernatural | svelte | sylphlike | tenuous | thin | thin-bodied | thinned | thinned-out | thinnish | thin-set | thin-spun | threadlike | topless | toplofty | topping | towering | towery | transcendental | transmundane | tropospheric | uncompact | uncompressed | unearthly | unembodied | unextended | unfleshly | unheavy | unphysical | unreal | unsubstantial | unworldly | uplifted | upreared | vague | vaporing | vaporish | vaporlike | vaporous | vapory | volatile | wasp-waisted | watered | watered-down | watery | weak | weightless | willowy | windy | wiredrawn | wispy | wraithlike | wraithy | yeasty See Also | Ethereal In Webster's Dictionary \E*the"re*al\, a.
1. 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.
Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. --Milton.
2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy;
tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as
form, manner, thought, etc.
Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures
ethereal, human, angel, man. --Pope.
3. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether;
as, ethereal salts.
{Ethereal oil}. (Chem.) See {Essential oil}, under
{Essential}.
{Ethereal oil of wine} (Chem.), a heavy, yellow, oily liquid
consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl
sulphate. It is the oily residuum left after
etherification. Called also {heavy oil of wine}
(distinguished from oil of wine, or [oe]nanthic ether).
{Ethereal salt} (Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a
base; an ester.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Organic compound ‐ any compound of carbon and another…
- Layup ‐ a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or…
- Teeming with(p) ‐ filled to overflowing with a vast number of moving or especially…
- Freestanding ‐ standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a…
- Cote d'ivoire ‐ a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the…
- Sphacele calycina ‐ California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white…
- Fan tracery ‐ the carved tracery on…
- Apatura ‐ large Old World…
- Hendrik verwoerd ‐ South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid…
- Ulysses grant ‐ 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies…