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adjectivelight, 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. Also ae·the·re·al (for defs. 1-4) . Origin of etherealFirst recorded in 1505–15; from Latin aethere(us) (from Greek aithérios ), equivalent to aether- ether + -eus adjective suffix + -al1 OTHER WORDS FROM ethereale·the·re·al·i·ty, e·the·re·al·ness, noune·the·re·al·ly, adverbe·the·re·ous, adjectivenon·e·the·re·al, adjective non·e·the·re·al·ly, adverbnon·e·the·re·al·ness, nounnon·e·the·re·al·i·ty, nounun·e·the·re·al, adjectiveun·e·the·re·al·ly, adverbun·e·the·re·al·ness, noun Words nearby etherealEthelwulf, ethene, ethenyl, ethephon, ether, ethereal, etherealize, ethereal oil, Etherege, etherify, etherize Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for etherealBitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product. You Were Wrong About Miley & Bitcoin: 2014’s Failed Predictions|Nina Strochlic|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST One skeleton in particular has become famous for the brutal way she died and the ethereal way her body was preserved. The Cave Where Mayans Sacrificed Humans Is Open for Visitors|Nina Strochlic|August 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance. Wine, Watch Out! These Ciders Are Just as Good|Jordan Salcito|July 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST I remember telling people at the time, ‘This kid is so ethereal and interesting.’ The Making of ‘Boyhood’: Richard Linklater’s 12-Year Journey to Create An American Masterpiece|Marlow Stern|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They will return, Eve says, and in the meanwhile they have an ethereal beauty. Can Hollywood Rejuvenate Detroit and America’s Bankrupt Cities?|David Levesley|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST Everywhere the grass was of ethereal greenness, a greenness drenched with the pale yellow of spring sunshine. Susanna and Sue|Kate Douglas Wiggin Chavibetol, an isomer of eugenol, occurs in the ethereal oil obtained from Piper betle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8|Various Nay, my ethereal friend, at two-and-thirty that is not so easy. Mohawks, Volume 1 of 3|Mary Elizabeth Braddon The ether and its movements.Light, then, is the result of ethereal undulations impinging on the eye. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2)|John William Draper An ethereal solution on evaporation assumes dendritic forms, but may contain octahedra and four-sided prisms. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection|Alexander Wynter Blyth
British Dictionary definitions for ethereal
adjectiveextremely delicate or refined; exquisite almost as light as air; impalpable; airy celestial or spiritual of, containing, or dissolved in an ether, esp diethyl etheran ethereal solution of or relating to the ether Derived forms of etherealethereality or etherealness, nounethereally, adverbWord Origin for etherealC16: from Latin aethereus, from Greek aitherios, from aithēr ether Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to etherealcelestial, intangible, exquisite, ghostly, airy, sublime, aerial, dainty, divine, empyrean, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, light, rarefied, refined Medical definitions for ethereal
adj.Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible. Of, relating to, or containing ether. Other words from ethereale•the′re•al′i•ty (-ăl′ĭ-tē) null n.e•the′re•al•ly adv.The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |