'Ethereal' definitions:
Definition of 'ethereal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
adjective
Of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution"
adjective
Of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn: celestial, ethereal, supernal]
adjective
Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing" [syn: ethereal, gossamer]
Definition of 'Ethereal'
From: GCIDE
- Ethereal \E*the"re*al\, a.
- 1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. [1913 Webster]
- Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. [1913 Webster]
- Ethereal oil. (Chem.) See Essential oil, under Essential.
- Ethereal oil of wine (Chem.), a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It is the oily residuum left after etherification. Called also heavy oil of wine (distinguished from oil of wine, or [oe]nanthic ether).
- Ethereal salt (Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a base; an ester. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ethereal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adulterated,
- aerial,
- aeriform,
- aerodynamic,
- aerostatic,
- aery,
- air-built,
- airish,
- airlike,
- airy,
- alfresco,
- altitudinous,
- ascending,
- asomatous,
- aspiring,
- astral,
- atmospheric,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- blessed,
- bodiless,
- boyish,
- breezy,
- bubbly,
- celestial,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- cloud-born,
- cloud-built,
- cloud-woven,
- colossal,
- cut,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- dominating,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- ectoplasmic,
- elevated,
- Elysian,
- eminent,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- etheric,
- exalted,
- exposed,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- from on high,
- frothy,
- fuming,
- fumy,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- gassy,
- gauzy,
- ghostish,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- ghosty,
- girlish,
- glorified,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- haughty,
- heavenly,
- high,
- high-pitched,
- high-reaching,
- high-set,
- high-up,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- imponderous,
- in glory,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- lacy,
- leger,
- light,
- light as air,
- lighter than vanity,
- lofty,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- misty,
- monumental,
- mounting,
- mousse,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- occult,
- Olympian,
- open-air,
- otherworldly,
- outtopping,
- overlooking,
- overtopping,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- papery,
- paradisaic,
- paradisal,
- paradisiac,
- paradisic,
- phantasmal,
- phantasmic,
- phantom,
- phantomic,
- phantomlike,
- pneumatic,
- prominent,
- psychic,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- roomy,
- shadowy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- soaring,
- souffle,
- specterlike,
- spectral,
- spiring,
- spiritual,
- spirituous,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- steep,
- sublime,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superlative,
- supernal,
- supernatural,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- topless,
- toplofty,
- topping,
- towering,
- towery,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- tropospheric,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unheavy,
- unphysical,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- uplifted,
- upreared,
- vague,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- volatile,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weightless,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- wraithlike,
- wraithy,
- yeasty
Words containing 'Ethereal'
- Ether,
- Etherealism,
- Ethereality,
- Etherealization,
- Etherealize,
- Ethereally,
- Etherealness,
- Ethereous,
- Etherization,
- Etherize,
- Etherized,
- Etherizing,
- Chloric ether,
- Complex ether,
- Compound ether,
- Ether engine,
- Ethereal medium,
- Ethereal oil,
- Ethereal salt,
- Ethereal tincture,
- Ethereous oil,
- Methyl ether,
- Mixed ether,
- Sulphur ether,
- Sulphuric ether,
- diethyl ether,
- dimethyl ether,
- divinyl ether,
- ethyl ether,
- luminiferous ether,
- pyroacetic ether,
- vinyl ether,
- Ethereal oil of wine,
- Spirit of nitrous ether,
- Spirit of vitriolic ether