ethereal
23
8.8
- adjective
- /ɪˈθɪəriəl/
- Literature
- Your gentle Xanetia is an ethereal, unworldly sort of person, hardly more than a girl.
- ethereal realm
- become ethereal
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Watch on YouTubeThey have to say it with that ethereal, breathy, condescending tone.
- They have to say it with that ethereal, breathy, condescending tone.
- It's very, very ethereal, gentle, flowing music.
- So young and youthful and Dewey and ethereal and all those things that I'm not.
- Cheer is lighter and just has that more ethereal look.
- I think love is spoken about in a very wishy washy, woo woo, kooky, ethereal, intangible way.
- And it's almost impossible to translate into English the word not as without sounding too ethereal, too metaphysical.
- Like how it's just like this ethereal, amorphous thing, right?
- It's too, too much ethereal, if that makes sense.
- Out of quantum physics becomes this ethereal reality of biology, of life.
- I love the way in which being alive is so ethereal, like like a storm is.
Examples
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I was entranced by the sight of her; she almost looked ethereal, so frail.
Fiction book (2000) -
"The woman was beautiful, ethereal, with a singularly musical voice, backlit by a golden glow."
Fiction book (1992) -
It's just like this really ethereal looking garden.
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The second exposure adds an ethereal quality to the overall image.
Academic text (1999) -
It's very, very ethereal, gentle, flowing music.
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The colors were so sort of ethereal and felt like an enchanted garden.
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High, pronounced cheekbones gave her face an ethereal, elegant quality far beyond her years.
Fiction book (1993) -
Below us, the cave narrows into an ethereal blue glowing tube that continues down for another several hundred feet.
Academic text (2004) -
The dancer moved with an ethereal grace that made her seem otherworldly.
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The sunset created an ethereal glow, washing the sky in shades of pink and gold.
Synonyms
101
5.5
Very beautiful, delicate, and well made, like a piece of jewelry
70
3.5
A very beautiful and surprising sight that amazes you
35
3.4
Extremely pleasant and giving great comfort
30
7.8
Seeming to come from another world and very strange
28
6.9
From heaven or like a god, not of this world
22
3.4
Very light and delicate, often seeming to float
12
9.9
Very beautiful and peaceful like heaven
6
8.6
Very light and delicate like a thin cloth or spider web
2
6.1
Very beautiful in a sad or mysterious way that stays in your mind
1
9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
1
9.9
Having a beautiful, heavenly look or sound that feels holy
1
7.1
Light and delicate in a way that seems not real
1
9.9
Light and delicate, like a soft cloud
1
9.9
Not of this world and seeming like a dream
Very light and not solid like air
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Antonyms
Compounds
How Ethereal
- Literature
30
7.8
35
3.4
- Literature
23
8.8
2
2.3
129
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ethereal also comes from the old word aether, which meant 'upper air' or the bright sky where people thought the gods lived. That's why ethereal describes things that feel very light, delicate, or 'otherworldly'.