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US
/ɪˈθɪɹiəɫ/
]
[ UK /iːθˈiəɹɪəl/ ]
[ UK /iːθˈiəɹɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
gossamer shading through his playing
this smallest and most ethereal of birds -
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
an airy apparition
physical rather than ethereal forms
figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away
aerial fancies -
of heaven or the spirit
celestial peace
the supernal happiness of a quiet death
ethereal melodies -
of or containing or dissolved in ether
ethereal solution
How To Use ethereal In A Sentence
- Set beneath the canopy of a large ilex, Campo Baeza's building is composed of two parts: an ethereal superstructure and a horizontal concrete platform.
- And the prints represent Abstract Expressionism's entire stylistic range, from fast and visceral to cool and ethereal.
- ethereal melodies
- So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker. In the Time of Bobby Cox
- Lemon zest contains terpenes, fragrant ethereal oils such as limonene, nerol and terpineol. The Times Literary Supplement
- Whatever it was, another one stepped into the clearing, which was by now aglow with the light of both ethereal beings.
- What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
- Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
- Moondog is the ethereal moniker by which the Fifties Manhattan street musician Louis Hardin was known.
- This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.