ethereally
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- adverb
- /ɪˈθɪəriəli/
- Literature
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etéreamente
- Then something seemed to take hold of her, and she became ethereally light and graceful.
- ethereally beautiful
- ethereally light
So as always, thank you so much for gracing our community with your just almost like ethereally sort of optimistic and bouncy yet measured presence.
- So as always, thank you so much for gracing our community with your just almost like ethereally sort of optimistic and bouncy yet measured presence.
- Spiritually, emotionally, physically and ethereally, really right.
Examples
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Spiritually, emotionally, physically and ethereally, really right.
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The artist painted ethereally light strokes that gave the canvas a divine quality.
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Angel Wings is ethereally beautiful, in name and on the nail.
Blog text (25) -
She was ethereally beautiful in the morning sunlight, her dark hair blown
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So as always, thank you so much for gracing our community with your just almost like ethereally sort of optimistic and bouncy yet measured presence.
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She was ethereally beautiful.
Fiction book (2002) -
Nero strummed an ethereally beautiful melody on his lyre, watching from his palace's balcony as towering flames licked the night sky in the distance.
Fiction book (2000) -
Bartta peered down at the face so ethereally beautiful, so ashen she could plainly see the play of blue veins beneath skin unnaturally taut and shiny with fever.
Fiction book (2001) -
Almost floating ethereally, a mysterious blond bombshell, wearing Diana's see-through negligee and slippers, armed with Elspeth's sword slung over her shoulder, wanders toward her.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the evening's mesmerizing final moments, the dancers appeared ethereally under the dim lights.
Synonyms
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In a very light, floating way as if not held down by gravity
Not physical, like a ghost or spirit
In a way that seems mysterious and spiritual
How Ethereal
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Etymology
The word ethereally comes from the old Greek word aether, meaning 'upper air' or 'pure sky', and it is the same root as the English word ether. So to do something ethereally is to seem to come from that light, clear air, which explains why it means very delicate, light, or otherworldly.