aethereal









aethereal


adjective

  1. light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
  2. extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
  3. heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
  4. of or relating to the upper regions of space.
  5. Chemistry. pertaining to, containing, or resembling ethyl ether.

noun

  1. ether(defs 3–5).
  2. (initial capital letter) the ancient Greek personification of the clear upper air of the sky.

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of ethereal (def. 1), ethereal (def. 2), ethereal (def. 3)

noun

  1. a variant spelling of ether (def. 3), ether (def. 4), ether (def. 5)

adjective

  1. extremely delicate or refined; exquisite
  2. almost as light as air; impalpable; airy
  3. celestial or spiritual
  4. of, containing, or dissolved in an ether, esp diethyl etheran ethereal solution
  5. of or relating to the ether
adj.

1510s, “of the highest regions of the atmosphere,” from ether + -al (1); extended sense of “light, airy” is from 1590s. Meaning “spiritlike, immaterial” is from 1640s. Related: Ethereally.

adj.

  1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
  2. Of, relating to, or containing ether.
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