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Type Words
Synonyms gossamer


this smallest and most ethereal of birds.
Type Words
Synonyms celestial, supernal
Derivation ether


ethereal melodies.
Type Words
Synonyms aerial, aeriform, aery, airy


physical rather than ethereal forms.
Type Words
Derivation ether


ethereal solution.

Examples of ethereal

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Aficionados use words such as transcendental and ethereal to describe the drink.
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Executive chef Maree Connolly later confirms the almost ethereal tempura batter.
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Cerulean blues and grass green grant an ethereal quality to a simple silk shift.
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For the rest of us, however, its value may be more ethereal and harder to grasp.
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The workmanship of the studios has been used for a younger, more ethereal style.
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Amanda Seyfried plays Savannah, an ethereal beauty whose purse falls off a pier.
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An ethereal and perfumed pinot noir that's one of the country's finest examples.
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It certainly likes Amanda Seyfried, who has penetrating eyes and ethereal beauty.
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Disobedient computers, frightened gold farmers and money gone seriously ethereal.
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  • Aeriform: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
  • Of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution"
  • Celestial: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
  • Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
  • X-COM is a series of video games, started by Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1993. The first three titles in the franchise were tactical games while the fourth was an action-based space combat/strategy game. All titles were developed for the PC, with a few ports to the Amiga and PlayStation. ...
  • Ethereal (foaled 1997 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand Thoroughbred mare who was a very successful racehorse. She was owned and bred by brothers, Peter and Phillip Vela who own Pencarrow Stud and New Zealand Bloodstock. Ethereal was sired by the 1989 U.S. ...
  • Ethereal waveGlasnost Wave magazine, issue #42, p.32/34, genre classification of the bands Trance to the Sun (album: "Ghost Forest"), This Ascension (album: "Light and Shade"), Soul Whirling Somewhere (album: "Eating the Sea"), Cocteau Twins and Lycia, Germany, April 1994, also called ethereal ...
  • Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues.
  • Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions; Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as ...