astral
/ˈastr(ə)l
/adjective [attributive]
1Relating to or resembling the stars: astral navigation...
- He's going to allot a section of the sky to each member of the family and have them count the number of stars in their designated astral plot.
- The two men had cited example after example of astrologically arranged marriages, full of astral promise, turning disastrous.
- The car's headlights led the way in this intensely gorgeous astral setting.
1.1Relating to a supposed non-physical realm of existence to which various psychic and paranormal phenomena are ascribed, and in which the physical human body is said to have a counterpart: spiritual beings from the astral plane...
- Like us, they have both physical and astral bodies.
- The physical body can be cured by treating the astral body with energy healing.
- By some accounts, the astral body is a third component of humans, along with the material body and disincarnate soul.
Origin
Early 17th century: from late Latin astralis, from astrum 'star'.
Rhymes
- dieldrin
- dielectric
- dielectrically
- dielectric constant
- dielectric heating
- dielectrophoresis
- die like flies
- die link
- Diels–Alder
- Diels–Alder reaction
- Dien Bien Phu
- diencephalic
- diencephalon
- diene
- die-off
- die on one's feet
- die on the Order Paper
- die on the vine
- die (or drop) like flies
- Dieppe
- dieresis
- diesel
- diesel-electric
- diesel engine
- diesel-hydraulic