Dictionary Entry
ethereal
ethereal is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
- 2adjective
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
- 3adjective
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
- 4adjective
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air- Thomas Carlyle
"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"
"aerial fancies"
- 5adjective
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
"this smallest and most ethereal of birds"
"gossamer shading through his playing"
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- 6adjective
of heaven or the spirit
"celestial peace"
"ethereal melodies"
- 7adjective
of or containing or dissolved in ether
"ethereal solution"
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