Sekirov Dictionary

ethereal

UK /ɪˈθɪə.ɹɪ.əl/US /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

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Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.
- Since to part, / Go heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger, / Sent from whose sovran goodness I adore. — 1667
•
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, / Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, / Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect ! [...] — 1733
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Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
- Sure he presum'd of praise, vvho came to stock / Th' etherial pastures vvith so fair a flock; / Burnish'd, and bat'ning on their food, to shovv / The diligence of carefull herds belovv. — 1687

noun1

Ellipsis of ethereal wave (“music genre”).

forms

more ethereal · etherealest · most ethereal

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