adjective
- light, 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 ethyl ether.
noun
- ether(defs 3–5).
- (initial capital letter) the ancient Greek personification of the clear upper air of the sky.
adjective
- a variant spelling of ethereal (def. 1), ethereal (def. 2), ethereal (def. 3)
noun
- a variant spelling of ether (def. 3), ether (def. 4), ether (def. 5)
adjective
- extremely 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
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.
- Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
- Of, relating to, or containing ether.