sublime

adjective

/səˈblaɪm/

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of very high quality or great beauty
- sublime beauty
- a sublime combination of flavours
- The location of the hotel is sublime.
(formal, often disapproving) (of a person’s behaviour or attitudes) extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it
- the sublime confidence of youth
- He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right.

Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.

sublime

noun

/səˈblaɪm/

the sublime

[singular]Idioms

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something that is sublime
- He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.

Idioms

from the sublime to the ridiculous

used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality

单词	sublime
释义	sublime adjective /səˈblaɪm/ /səˈblaɪm/ jump to other results of very high quality or great beauty sublime beauty a sublime combination of flavours The location of the hotel is sublime. (formal, often disapproving) (of a person’s behaviour or attitudes) extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it the sublime confidence of youth He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right. Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’. sublime noun /səˈblaɪm/ /səˈblaɪm/ the sublime [singular]Idioms jump to other results something that is sublime He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime. Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’. Idioms from the sublime to the ridiculous used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality
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