sublime

Of an aspect of art or nature: causing awe or deep respect due to its beauty or magnificence; awe-inspiring, impressive.

Of language, style, or writing: expressing opinions in a grand way.

Of a thing: consummate, perfect; (informal, loosely) excellent, marvellous, wonderful.

Of a person or their actions or qualities: intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior.

Of an idea or other thing: requiring great intellectual effort to appreciate or understand; very elevated, refined, or subtle.

(informal, figurative) Complete, downright, utter.

(figurative) Of an office or status: very high; exalted; also, used as an honorific (often capitalized as Sublime) to refer to someone of high office or status, especially the Ottoman sultan; or to things associated with such a person.

(figurative) Of flight: ascending, soaring.

(figurative, no longer used) Of a person: dignified, majestic, noble.

(literary, no longer used) High, tall, towering; also, positioned in a high place; high-up, lofty.

[after a noun] (literary, no longer used) Of arms: lifted up, raised.

(no longer used) Of a muscle (especially the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle of the forearm which lies above the flexor digitorum profundus muscle): positioned above another muscle; superficial.

(figurative, no longer used) Of a person: haughty, proud.

(figurative, no longer used) Elevated by joy; elated.

(figurative, no longer used) Of a substance: purified, refined; hence, of the highest quality.

(no longer used) Of breathing: very laboured.

(figurative) To raise (someone or an intangible thing) to a state of (especially moral or spiritual) excellence; to exalt.

To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container; (generally) to change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.

Of a substance: to change from a solid into a gas without passing through the liquid state, with or without being heated.

Synonym of sublimate.

(figurative) To become higher in quality or status; to improve.

Of a substance: to change from a gas into a solid without passing through the liquid state.

(no longer used) To obtain or purify (a substance) in this manner.

(no longer used) To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to exalt.

(no longer used) To raise (a physical thing) to a state of excellence; to improve.

(no longer used) To cause (someone or something) to ascend; to raise (someone or something) to a high position.

(no longer used) To cause (juice or sap) to rise in a plant.

(no longer used) Especially of the sun: to heat (something) and cause vapours, etc., to rise from it.

(no longer used) To purify (someone) from a bad influence or from sin.

An aspect of art or nature which causes awe or deep respect due to its beauty or magnificence; hence, the great beauty or magnificence of a place, a thing, etc.

That which is intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior in human life or human nature.

A style of language or writing which expresses opinions in a grand way.

(no longer used) Something which is sublime; a sublimity.

(no longer used) The quality or state of being sublime; sublimeness, sublimity.

(no longer used) In the form the sublime of: the highest degree; the acme, the height.