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ethereal
[ ih-theer-ee-uhl ]
adjective
- light, airy, or tenuous:
an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
- extremely delicate or refined:
ethereal beauty.
- heavenly or celestial:
gone to his ethereal home.
- of or relating to the upper regions of space.
- Chemistry. pertaining to, containing, or resembling ether.
ethereal
/ ɪˈθɪərɪəl /
adjective
- extremely delicate or refined; exquisite
- almost as light as air; impalpable; airy
- celestial or spiritual
- of, containing, or dissolved in an ether, esp diethyl ether
an ethereal solution
- of or relating to the ether
Derived Forms
- eˌthereˈality, noun
- eˈthereally, adverb
Other Words From
- e·there·ali·ty e·there·al·ness noun
- e·there·al·ly adverb
- e·there·ous adjective
- none·there·al adjective
- none·there·al·ly adverb
- none·there·al·ness noun
- none·there·ali·ty noun
- une·there·al adjective
- une·there·al·ly adverb
- une·there·al·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ethereal1
Example Sentences
“Many people think of services as being in an ethereal cloud, but everything is based at some point on physical infrastructure and more often than not this is based in a data centre.”
They approximate ethereal ballet steps and point at the stars, but all the reaching quickly retracts or deflates, as if in embarrassment.
“The whole thing was kind of ethereal and captivating.”
There, he erected a platform so he could apply the final brushstrokes to the strikingly contemporary portrait, which depicts a uniformed Charles against an ethereal background.
The new approach makes it possible to manipulate objects at a distance and could be integrated into robots to give machines ethereal fingers.
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