ethereal 1
Extremely delicate and light.
Latin
Extremely delicate and light.
adjective [ ih-THEER-ee-uhl ]
Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
- 🖊️ In the moonlight, her beauty was ethereal, almost otherworldly.
- 🖊️ If I could capture the ethereal essence of a dream, I would paint it in shades of twilight.
- 🖊️ The dancer moved with an ethereal grace, as if she were a whisper of wind.
- 🤝 delicate, light, airy
- ⚔️ earthy, material, substantial
Heavenly or spiritual.
adjective [ ih-THEER-ee-uhl ]
Relating to the regions beyond the earth; celestial, heavenly, or spiritual.
- 🖊️ The dancer moved with an ethereal grace, as if she were floating on air.
- 🖊️ In the moonlight, the ancient ruins took on an ethereal glow, whispering secrets of a bygone era.
- 🖊️ Isn't it ethereal how the mist clings to the mountains at dawn?
- 🤝 heavenly, celestial, spiritual
- ⚔️ mundane, earthly, worldly
ethereal 2
Of or relating to the upper regions of space.
Greek
Of or relating to the upper regions of space.
adjective [ ih-THEER-ee-uhl ]
Of or relating to the upper regions of space, beyond the terrestrial sphere.
- 🖊️ In Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the fairy queen Titania moves with an ethereal grace, as if she were a creature of the stars.
- 🖊️ The ethereal beauty of the Hubble Space Telescope's images reminds us of the vast, unexplored realms beyond our world.
- 🖊️ The aurora borealis painted the night sky with ethereal hues, a dance of light that seemed almost otherworldly.
- 🤝 celestial, heavenly, astral
- ⚔️ terrestrial, earthly, grounded
