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ethereal
/ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/
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What does ethereal mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.
- Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
- Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
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noun
- Ellipsis of ethereal wave (“music genre”).
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This bit of forest might have appeared to an ethereal wanderer as a scene of the result of some frightful debauch.
In certain directions, therefore, the imagination is too weak to conceive an ethereal being in human form floating in the air.
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Although one never hears it at its best during the migrations, how one loves to recall the serene, ethereal evening hymn!
It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.
Whether there are any bounds at all to this ethereal ocean, or whether it is as infinite as space itself, we cannot surmise.