adjective [eh-ther-reel]
FULL DEFINITION
-of or relating to the regions beyond the earth
or
- lacking material substance
- marked by unusual delicacy or refinement
-suggesting the heavens or heaven
or
-relating to, containing, or resembling a chemical ether
SYNONYMS: bodiless, immaterial, formless, incorporeal, insubstantial, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritual, unbodied, unsubstantial
ANTONYMS: bodily, corporeal, material, physical, substantial
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Examples:
-Cloaking the woodlands was a seemingly ethereal purple aura.
-That scenery seemed otherworldly and ethereal.
Did you know? If you're burning to know the history of "ethereal," you're in the right spirit to fully understand that word's etymology. The ancient Greeks believed that the Earth was composed of earth, air, fire, and water, but that the heavens and its denizens were made of a purer, less tangible substance known as either "ether" or "quintessence." Ether was often described as an invisible light or fire, and its name derives from the Greek aithein, a verb meaning "to ignite" or "to blaze." When "ethereal," the adjective kin of "ether," debuted in English in the 1500s, it referred specifically to regions beyond the Earth, but it gradually came to refer to anything heavenly or airy.
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