Definition of ethereal in English:

ethereal

(also etherial)

adjective ɪˈθɪərɪələˈθɪriəl

1Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.
轻飘的，飘逸的
her ethereal beauty
她轻盈的美。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her voice is light but never ethereal, grounded but never guttural.
- Zurn, best known for her relationship with Hans Bellmer, produced a body of ethereal, delicate and haunting drawings during the most prolific decade of her life, the 1960s.
- Her delicate features accentuated her ethereal beauty.
- The overall effect is that the colour seems to float just beneath the surface and the piece appears very ethereal and delicate.
- The lightning shed an ethereal light around the room as I looked to see what had disturbed my sleep.
- This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.
- After the rains the hills have an ethereal quality to them.
- And more ghostly unicorns were emerging from the light, their heads held high, their bodies flashing with ethereal light.
- This film is loaded with symbolic imagery, and it has an extremely ethereal quality, in part due to the score by Arvo Pärt, but mostly because of the director's use of movement and stasis.
- The ethereal blue and green lights, coupled with the steam covering the stage floor, was such a necessary addition, that I knew that some sense of atmosphere could have been lost without it.
- A near-full moon bathed the vast plains in ethereal light.
- Amid the shots of astronauts and soccer players, the viewer suddenly notices an ethereal white light.
- Interlocking together, the white lights gave off an almost ethereal glow.
- He was anything but earthly, however, his form a translucent pale blue and shimmering with ethereal light.
- It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours.
- For whatever reason he could not guess, anger and annoyance were far from her facial features and the pale silver lighting gave her an ethereal sort of appearance.
- The lighting is very atmospheric and stark which creates an other-wordly, ethereal effect as well as a smoky, nightclub atmosphere.
- Perched atop a ridge and surrounded by thick clouds of perennial mist, the Tawang Monastery, one of Asia's biggest Buddhist monasteries, appears suspended from heaven in an ethereal way.
- She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
- Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree.
Synonyms
delicate, exquisite, dainty, elegant, graceful, beautiful, lovely
fragile, airy, gossamer, gossamery, light, fine, diaphanous, thin, tenuous, subtle, insubstantial, shadowy
1. 1.1 Heavenly or spiritual.
  天上的，非人间的；精神上的
  ethereal, otherworldly visions
  精神上对来世的幻想。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Or was it something more ethereal, more spiritual?
  This is how I will live on, not in some ethereal spirit form.
  We can accomplish these goals through mental effort and energy work in the ethereal plane.
  And I'm quite aware later that I've been in a very special place; it's physical, ethereal, spiritual, it's all those things.
  But it wasn't some ethereal, otherworldly experience for me.
  As I was saying, everything spiritual - ghosts, demons, spirits and deities - inhabit the ethereal plane.
  The other is an ethereal world, a spiritual world.
  From time to time she would go completely limp, as her spirit slipped from her body into the ethereal plane, feeling the ebb and flow of the thought stream that had caught her attention.
  His spirit taunted her, mocked her from the higher, ethereal plane of existence.
  Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly.
  Indeed, up until this point Mitchum has maintained such unflinching control of the screen that his defeat seems possible only by shifting him to a less ethereal plane.
  The God of the Bible is not some ethereal gnostic spirit but a personal God covenanted to the people He chose.
  Drawing up our full psychic powers we somehow reached into the ethereal plane and lo and behold the stylus began to move on the board.
  Synonyms
  celestial, heavenly, spiritual, unearthly, other-worldly, paradisical, Elysian, sublime, divine, holy
  rare empyrean, superlunary
2Chemistry
(of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent.
〔化〕（溶液）含乙醚的
sodium is dissolved in ethereal solutions of aromatic ketones
Example sentencesExamples
- The ethereal solvent was evaporated as before and the residue recovered.
- The dried samples were methylated with fresh ethereal diazomethane.
- The aqueous phase was re-extracted with ether and the combined ethereal extracts washed with water until free from alkali.
- Separate the ethereal solution and evaporate.
- Lipids were extracted according to the method of Bligh and Dyer, followed by methylation with ethereal diazomethane.

Derivatives

ethereality

noun ɪθɪərɪˈalɪtiəˌθɪriəˈælədi

Here, four short movements are imbued with grace and ethereality and the end result is a truly pleasant listening experience.
Example sentencesExamples
- She was most admired for her lightness and ethereality as a dancer and of her many roles she was most closely associated with Giselle - many considered her reading of it to be definitive.
- The hypnotic ethereality of the opening image is suddenly broken as Ryan's alarmed mother unwraps the boy from the window curtain cocoon and scolds him with the combination of worry and fear that hounds mothers in this Glasgow ghetto.
- Tebenikhin plays the two slow main themes in the first movement with the right mixture of regret and ethereality, and he renders the dark and profound development section as well as anyone ever has.
- For haunting ethereality, it is very difficult indeed to do better than the recording of Christiane Legrand singing the Largo movement from J.S. Bachs Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor.

etherealize

verb ɪˈθɪərɪəlʌɪz

[with object]

Make or cause to seem ethereal or otherworldly.
happiness played over her face and etherealized its beauty
Example sentencesExamples
- As blossoms etherealize and sublimate their substances into scent, radiant color and wafting pollen, these substances become more spiritualized but also less alive.
- He tries hard to etherealize both the Zionist movement and the State of Israel.

ethereally

adverb

When the cloaked figure wanders, ethereally, through the misty graveyard, dancing among the headstones, we sense we are in the hands of an exceptional visionary.
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, Thomas is radiantly healthy and almost ethereally beautiful.
- Whatever it was glowed ethereally, some metres away from him.
- This book has an atmosphere so ethereally unsettling, it will haunt you for weeks.
- It is, certainly, painfully lovely, achingly gorgeous, exasperatingly lyrical, sumptuously spellbinding, ethereally hypnotic, and, above all, transcendentally sublime.

Origin

Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek aitherios (from aithēr 'ether') + -al.

Rhymes

arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial

Definition of ethereal in US English:

ethereal

adjectiveəˈθɪriələˈTHirēəl

1Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
轻飘的，飘逸的
her ethereal beauty
她轻盈的美。
a singer who has a weirdly ethereal voice
一个嗓音特别缥缈的歌手。
Example sentencesExamples
- The ethereal blue and green lights, coupled with the steam covering the stage floor, was such a necessary addition, that I knew that some sense of atmosphere could have been lost without it.
- Zurn, best known for her relationship with Hans Bellmer, produced a body of ethereal, delicate and haunting drawings during the most prolific decade of her life, the 1960s.
- Her voice is light but never ethereal, grounded but never guttural.
- After the rains the hills have an ethereal quality to them.
- It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours.
- This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.
- The lightning shed an ethereal light around the room as I looked to see what had disturbed my sleep.
- Perched atop a ridge and surrounded by thick clouds of perennial mist, the Tawang Monastery, one of Asia's biggest Buddhist monasteries, appears suspended from heaven in an ethereal way.
- She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
- A near-full moon bathed the vast plains in ethereal light.
- This film is loaded with symbolic imagery, and it has an extremely ethereal quality, in part due to the score by Arvo Pärt, but mostly because of the director's use of movement and stasis.
- Interlocking together, the white lights gave off an almost ethereal glow.
- Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree.
- Her delicate features accentuated her ethereal beauty.
- Amid the shots of astronauts and soccer players, the viewer suddenly notices an ethereal white light.
- For whatever reason he could not guess, anger and annoyance were far from her facial features and the pale silver lighting gave her an ethereal sort of appearance.
- He was anything but earthly, however, his form a translucent pale blue and shimmering with ethereal light.
- And more ghostly unicorns were emerging from the light, their heads held high, their bodies flashing with ethereal light.
- The overall effect is that the colour seems to float just beneath the surface and the piece appears very ethereal and delicate.
- The lighting is very atmospheric and stark which creates an other-wordly, ethereal effect as well as a smoky, nightclub atmosphere.
Synonyms
delicate, exquisite, dainty, elegant, graceful, beautiful, lovely
1. 1.1 Heavenly or spiritual.
  天上的，非人间的；精神上的
  ethereal, otherworldly visions
  精神上对来世的幻想。
  Example sentencesExamples
  From time to time she would go completely limp, as her spirit slipped from her body into the ethereal plane, feeling the ebb and flow of the thought stream that had caught her attention.
  And I'm quite aware later that I've been in a very special place; it's physical, ethereal, spiritual, it's all those things.
  But it wasn't some ethereal, otherworldly experience for me.
  The other is an ethereal world, a spiritual world.
  Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly.
  His spirit taunted her, mocked her from the higher, ethereal plane of existence.
  Indeed, up until this point Mitchum has maintained such unflinching control of the screen that his defeat seems possible only by shifting him to a less ethereal plane.
  We can accomplish these goals through mental effort and energy work in the ethereal plane.
  The God of the Bible is not some ethereal gnostic spirit but a personal God covenanted to the people He chose.
  Or was it something more ethereal, more spiritual?
  This is how I will live on, not in some ethereal spirit form.
  Drawing up our full psychic powers we somehow reached into the ethereal plane and lo and behold the stylus began to move on the board.
  As I was saying, everything spiritual - ghosts, demons, spirits and deities - inhabit the ethereal plane.
  Synonyms
  celestial, heavenly, spiritual, unearthly, other-worldly, paradisical, elysian, sublime, divine, holy
2Chemistry
(of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent.
〔化〕（溶液）含乙醚的
Example sentencesExamples
- The aqueous phase was re-extracted with ether and the combined ethereal extracts washed with water until free from alkali.
- The ethereal solvent was evaporated as before and the residue recovered.
- Separate the ethereal solution and evaporate.
- Lipids were extracted according to the method of Bligh and Dyer, followed by methylation with ethereal diazomethane.
- The dried samples were methylated with fresh ethereal diazomethane.

Origin

Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek aitherios (from aithēr ‘ether’) + -al.

词汇	ethereal
释义	Definition of ethereal in English: ethereal (also etherial) adjective ɪˈθɪərɪələˈθɪriəl 1Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world. 轻飘的，飘逸的 her ethereal beauty 她轻盈的美。 Example sentencesExamples Her voice is light but never ethereal, grounded but never guttural. Zurn, best known for her relationship with Hans Bellmer, produced a body of ethereal, delicate and haunting drawings during the most prolific decade of her life, the 1960s. Her delicate features accentuated her ethereal beauty. The overall effect is that the colour seems to float just beneath the surface and the piece appears very ethereal and delicate. The lightning shed an ethereal light around the room as I looked to see what had disturbed my sleep. This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference. After the rains the hills have an ethereal quality to them. And more ghostly unicorns were emerging from the light, their heads held high, their bodies flashing with ethereal light. This film is loaded with symbolic imagery, and it has an extremely ethereal quality, in part due to the score by Arvo Pärt, but mostly because of the director's use of movement and stasis. The ethereal blue and green lights, coupled with the steam covering the stage floor, was such a necessary addition, that I knew that some sense of atmosphere could have been lost without it. A near-full moon bathed the vast plains in ethereal light. Amid the shots of astronauts and soccer players, the viewer suddenly notices an ethereal white light. Interlocking together, the white lights gave off an almost ethereal glow. He was anything but earthly, however, his form a translucent pale blue and shimmering with ethereal light. It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours. For whatever reason he could not guess, anger and annoyance were far from her facial features and the pale silver lighting gave her an ethereal sort of appearance. The lighting is very atmospheric and stark which creates an other-wordly, ethereal effect as well as a smoky, nightclub atmosphere. Perched atop a ridge and surrounded by thick clouds of perennial mist, the Tawang Monastery, one of Asia's biggest Buddhist monasteries, appears suspended from heaven in an ethereal way. She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her. Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree. Synonyms delicate, exquisite, dainty, elegant, graceful, beautiful, lovely fragile, airy, gossamer, gossamery, light, fine, diaphanous, thin, tenuous, subtle, insubstantial, shadowy 1.1 Heavenly or spiritual. 天上的，非人间的；精神上的 ethereal, otherworldly visions 精神上对来世的幻想。 Example sentencesExamples Or was it something more ethereal, more spiritual? This is how I will live on, not in some ethereal spirit form. We can accomplish these goals through mental effort and energy work in the ethereal plane. And I'm quite aware later that I've been in a very special place; it's physical, ethereal, spiritual, it's all those things. But it wasn't some ethereal, otherworldly experience for me. As I was saying, everything spiritual - ghosts, demons, spirits and deities - inhabit the ethereal plane. The other is an ethereal world, a spiritual world. From time to time she would go completely limp, as her spirit slipped from her body into the ethereal plane, feeling the ebb and flow of the thought stream that had caught her attention. His spirit taunted her, mocked her from the higher, ethereal plane of existence. Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly. Indeed, up until this point Mitchum has maintained such unflinching control of the screen that his defeat seems possible only by shifting him to a less ethereal plane. The God of the Bible is not some ethereal gnostic spirit but a personal God covenanted to the people He chose. Drawing up our full psychic powers we somehow reached into the ethereal plane and lo and behold the stylus began to move on the board. Synonyms celestial, heavenly, spiritual, unearthly, other-worldly, paradisical, Elysian, sublime, divine, holy rare empyrean, superlunary 2Chemistry (of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent. 〔化〕（溶液）含乙醚的 sodium is dissolved in ethereal solutions of aromatic ketones Example sentencesExamples The ethereal solvent was evaporated as before and the residue recovered. The dried samples were methylated with fresh ethereal diazomethane. The aqueous phase was re-extracted with ether and the combined ethereal extracts washed with water until free from alkali. Separate the ethereal solution and evaporate. Lipids were extracted according to the method of Bligh and Dyer, followed by methylation with ethereal diazomethane. Derivatives ethereality noun ɪθɪərɪˈalɪtiəˌθɪriəˈælədi Here, four short movements are imbued with grace and ethereality and the end result is a truly pleasant listening experience. Example sentencesExamples She was most admired for her lightness and ethereality as a dancer and of her many roles she was most closely associated with Giselle - many considered her reading of it to be definitive. The hypnotic ethereality of the opening image is suddenly broken as Ryan's alarmed mother unwraps the boy from the window curtain cocoon and scolds him with the combination of worry and fear that hounds mothers in this Glasgow ghetto. Tebenikhin plays the two slow main themes in the first movement with the right mixture of regret and ethereality, and he renders the dark and profound development section as well as anyone ever has. For haunting ethereality, it is very difficult indeed to do better than the recording of Christiane Legrand singing the Largo movement from J.S. Bachs Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor. etherealize verb ɪˈθɪərɪəlʌɪz [with object] Make or cause to seem ethereal or otherworldly. happiness played over her face and etherealized its beauty Example sentencesExamples As blossoms etherealize and sublimate their substances into scent, radiant color and wafting pollen, these substances become more spiritualized but also less alive. He tries hard to etherealize both the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. ethereally adverb When the cloaked figure wanders, ethereally, through the misty graveyard, dancing among the headstones, we sense we are in the hands of an exceptional visionary. Example sentencesExamples In fact, Thomas is radiantly healthy and almost ethereally beautiful. Whatever it was glowed ethereally, some metres away from him. This book has an atmosphere so ethereally unsettling, it will haunt you for weeks. It is, certainly, painfully lovely, achingly gorgeous, exasperatingly lyrical, sumptuously spellbinding, ethereally hypnotic, and, above all, transcendentally sublime. Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek aitherios (from aithēr 'ether') + -al. Rhymes arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial Definition of ethereal in US English: ethereal adjectiveəˈθɪriələˈTHirēəl 1Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world. 轻飘的，飘逸的 her ethereal beauty 她轻盈的美。 a singer who has a weirdly ethereal voice 一个嗓音特别缥缈的歌手。 Example sentencesExamples The ethereal blue and green lights, coupled with the steam covering the stage floor, was such a necessary addition, that I knew that some sense of atmosphere could have been lost without it. Zurn, best known for her relationship with Hans Bellmer, produced a body of ethereal, delicate and haunting drawings during the most prolific decade of her life, the 1960s. Her voice is light but never ethereal, grounded but never guttural. After the rains the hills have an ethereal quality to them. It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours. This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference. The lightning shed an ethereal light around the room as I looked to see what had disturbed my sleep. Perched atop a ridge and surrounded by thick clouds of perennial mist, the Tawang Monastery, one of Asia's biggest Buddhist monasteries, appears suspended from heaven in an ethereal way. She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her. A near-full moon bathed the vast plains in ethereal light. This film is loaded with symbolic imagery, and it has an extremely ethereal quality, in part due to the score by Arvo Pärt, but mostly because of the director's use of movement and stasis. Interlocking together, the white lights gave off an almost ethereal glow. Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree. Her delicate features accentuated her ethereal beauty. Amid the shots of astronauts and soccer players, the viewer suddenly notices an ethereal white light. For whatever reason he could not guess, anger and annoyance were far from her facial features and the pale silver lighting gave her an ethereal sort of appearance. He was anything but earthly, however, his form a translucent pale blue and shimmering with ethereal light. And more ghostly unicorns were emerging from the light, their heads held high, their bodies flashing with ethereal light. The overall effect is that the colour seems to float just beneath the surface and the piece appears very ethereal and delicate. The lighting is very atmospheric and stark which creates an other-wordly, ethereal effect as well as a smoky, nightclub atmosphere. Synonyms delicate, exquisite, dainty, elegant, graceful, beautiful, lovely 1.1 Heavenly or spiritual. 天上的，非人间的；精神上的 ethereal, otherworldly visions 精神上对来世的幻想。 Example sentencesExamples From time to time she would go completely limp, as her spirit slipped from her body into the ethereal plane, feeling the ebb and flow of the thought stream that had caught her attention. And I'm quite aware later that I've been in a very special place; it's physical, ethereal, spiritual, it's all those things. But it wasn't some ethereal, otherworldly experience for me. The other is an ethereal world, a spiritual world. Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly. His spirit taunted her, mocked her from the higher, ethereal plane of existence. Indeed, up until this point Mitchum has maintained such unflinching control of the screen that his defeat seems possible only by shifting him to a less ethereal plane. We can accomplish these goals through mental effort and energy work in the ethereal plane. The God of the Bible is not some ethereal gnostic spirit but a personal God covenanted to the people He chose. Or was it something more ethereal, more spiritual? This is how I will live on, not in some ethereal spirit form. Drawing up our full psychic powers we somehow reached into the ethereal plane and lo and behold the stylus began to move on the board. As I was saying, everything spiritual - ghosts, demons, spirits and deities - inhabit the ethereal plane. Synonyms celestial, heavenly, spiritual, unearthly, other-worldly, paradisical, elysian, sublime, divine, holy 2Chemistry (of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent. 〔化〕（溶液）含乙醚的 Example sentencesExamples The aqueous phase was re-extracted with ether and the combined ethereal extracts washed with water until free from alkali. The ethereal solvent was evaporated as before and the residue recovered. Separate the ethereal solution and evaporate. Lipids were extracted according to the method of Bligh and Dyer, followed by methylation with ethereal diazomethane. The dried samples were methylated with fresh ethereal diazomethane. Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek aitherios (from aithēr ‘ether’) + -al.
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