ethereal
IPA: ɪθˈɪriʌɫ
noun
- Short for ethereal wave (“music genre”). [(music) A genre of darkwave music influenced by Gothic rock.]
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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Examples of "ethereal" in Sentences
- Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth
- The ethereal filcher is a kleptomaniacal creature.
- The rest of the song is very beautiful and ethereal.
- My reading of the issue is that Ethereal is no longer developed on.
- Debussy is alluded to, with the ethereal harmonies of the 11th variation.
- Ethereal should mention Ethereal as the former name and link to Wireshark.
- All I have now is light, the ethereal gossamer connecting disparate things.
- Life goes on, only you will function in a finer body known as the ethereal body.
- This world, of course, includes not just the material world but also the ethereal, as evidenced by the root of the word ethereal: ether.
- When that happened, all the gods (who, it turns out, really did exist in ethereal forms, science be damned) became earthbound as humans.
- Many philosophers have supposed the universe to be filled with an extremely subtile fluid, which they have termed ethereal; and this hypothesis has been sanctioned by the illustrious authority of Newton.
- A wasting beauty in women was called ethereal, while robust health was considered vulgar; in men, tuberculosis was thought to denote creative genius, prompted by the suffering of such artists as Poe, Goethe, Balzac, Stevenson, and Keats.
- In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything -- her quietness, that calm certitude as if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal.
- Their motion through the bushes often disturbed clouds of yellow butterflies, which had been hanging on the fringes of the tall purple asters, and which rose toying with each other, and fluttering in ethereal dances against the blue sky, looking like whirls and eddies of air-flowers.
- Given that Sanaa specialise in a form of architecture that might be called ethereal? buildings of great transparency, such as the new Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne, that touch the ground as lightly as possible? this idea of doing more with less, and delightfully so, makes sense.
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