ethereal

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; - Thomas Carlyle
  • "physical rather than ethereal forms"
• of heaven or the spirit
  • "ethereal melodies"
• characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
  • "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"

Adjective

• Extremely delicate and light; seemingly not of this world.
• of or containing or dissolved in ether
  • "ethereal solution"

Adj

• 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.

Noun

• Ellipsis of ethereal wave (“music genre”).

Examples

• ethereal regions
• ethereal space
• The ghost of a possible bingo, ETHEREAL, floated tantalizingly close on her Scrabble rack.

Synonyms

aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, celestial, gossamer, supernal, aereous, cosmic, delicate, ethereal, ethereous, gaseous, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, knotty, light, mystical, nice, otherworldly, pneumatic, spiritual, subtle, tenuous, transcendental, tricky, uncorporeal, universal, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporlike, vaporous, wafty

Antonyms

corporal, corporeal

Anagrams of ethereal