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

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
3. adjective. Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
4. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy

5. adjective. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

   "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"

   "gossamer shading through his playing"

   Synonyms: gossamer

6. adjective. of heaven or the spirit

   "celestial peace"

   "ethereal melodies"

   Synonyms: celestial, supernal

7. adjective. of or containing or dissolved in ether

   "ethereal solution"

Synonyms

aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, gossamer, celestial, supernal

Common word forms

ethereally, etherealise, ethereality, etherealize, etherealness

Words from these letters

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