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Ethereal

Ethereal Meaning & Definition
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

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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.

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