EGAVE

ethereal

About 0.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
    ethereal space
  2. adjective Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
  3. adjective Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
  4. noun Ellipsis of ethereal wave (“music genre”).

Similar words

airy aeriform supernal celestial aery heavenly aerial delicate unsubstantial insubstantial

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Word family

etherealities ethereality etherealization etherealizations etherealize etherealized etherealizes etherealizing ethereally etherealness

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