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ethereal
Aerial and airy both signify of or belonging to the air, but airy also describes that which seems as if made of air; we speak of airy shapes, airy nothings, where we could not well say aerial; ethereal describes its object as belonging to the upper air, the pure ether, and so, often, heavenly. Sprightly, spiritlike, refers to light, free, cheerful activity of mind and body. That which is lively or animated may be agreeable or the reverse; as, an animated discussion; a lively company.
Synonyms:
aerial, airy, animated, fairylike, frolicsome, gay, joyous, light, lively, sprightlyAntonyms:
clumsy, dull, heavy, inert, ponderous, slow, sluggish, stony, wooden
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aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, etherealadjective
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»
Synonyms:
celestial, supernal, aery, aeriform, windy, airy, airlike, impractical, aerial, visionary, gossamer, airedAntonyms:
substantial, material, earthly, real, rugged -
etherealadjective
of or containing or dissolved in ether
«ethereal solution»
Synonyms:
supernal, celestial, aerial, gossamer, aery, aeriform, airyAntonyms:
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celestial, ethereal, supernaladjective
of heaven or the spirit
«celestial peace»; «ethereal melodies»; «the supernal happiness of a quiet death»
Synonyms:
heavenly, supernal, aery, aeriform, airy, celestial, aerial, gossamerAntonyms:
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ethereal, gossameradjective
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
«this smallest and most ethereal of birds»; «gossamer shading through his playing»
Synonyms:
vapourous, celestial, aery, cobwebby, diaphanous, sheer, see-through, aerial, vaporous, gossamer, airy, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, aeriform, supernal, transparentAntonyms:
substantial, material, real, rugged, earthly
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Erik Pevernagie:
The whole wire system of the brain could be disconnected in a spark of a second by a sometimes unsignificant detail. An unexpected incident or an innocuous phone call may provoke an ethereal distress that might plunge one’s life into chaos and like a sudden twist of fate overturn everything, ransacking the assembled experiences of our history. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)
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Carrie Fisher:
So when I started thinking about who I wanted to design my wedding dress, they were the first people who came to mind, i have always been a massive fan of their work and thought their elegant, ethereal, unique style was a perfect fit for my — kind of —elegant, ethereal, unique personality.
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Meghan Markle:
That poem became this story, christian layered in beautiful and ethereal watercolor illustrations that capture the warmth, joy and comfort of the relationship between fathers and sons from all walks of life; this representation was particularly important to me, and Christian and I worked closely to depict this special bond through an inclusive lens.
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Czon:
The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel:
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
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airy
delicate, thick
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celestial
heavenly, delicate
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aerial
thick, delicate
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heavenly
spiritual, not earthly
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gossamer
thick, delicate
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unearthly
delicate, spiritual
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insubstantial
fragile, flimsy
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delicate
beautiful
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light
fragile, very light
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unsubstantial
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incorporeal
flimsy, unsubstantial
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supernal
heavenly
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dainty
beautiful
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exquisite
beautiful
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subtle
fragile, very light
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intangible
very light, flimsy
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aeriform
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aery
thick
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empyrean
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vaporous
thick, very light
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tenuous
fragile, flimsy
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spiritual
celestial
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unworldly
spiritual
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fragile
very light
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divine
heavenly, not earthly
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fine
fragile
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immaterial
unsubstantial, disembodied
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empyreal
spiritual
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sublime
spiritual, celestial
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impalpable
insubstantial
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- airy
- celestial
- exquisite
- ghostly
- intangible
- sublime
- aerial
- dainty
- divine
- empyreal
- empyrean
- fairy
- filmy
- fine
- gaseous
- gossamer
- impalpable
- insubstantial
- light
- rarefied
- refined
- spiritual
- subtle
- supernal
- tenuous
- unearthly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
- vaporous
- vapory
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Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.
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Again he sat in the soft darkness, before the ghostly glimmer of the silk, tracing upon it visions of ethereal light.
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WORDS RELATED TO ETHEREAL
- aeriform
- aeronautical
- airy
- atmospheric
- birdlike
- ethereal
- flying
- lofty
- pneumatic
- up above
- vaporous
- adorable
- archangelic
- beatific
- beneficent
- celestial
- cherubic
- devout
- divine
- entrancing
- ethereal
- godly
- good
- heavenly
- holy
- humble
- innocent
- lovely
- otherworldly
- pure
- radiant
- rapturous
- righteous
- saintly
- self-sacrificing
- seraphic
- virtuous
- aerial
- airy
- barometrical
- baroscopic
- climatic
- ethereal
- meteorological
- angelic
- cherubic
- divine
- ethereal
- heavenly
- lovely
- Olympian
- angelic
- astral
- beatific
- blessed
- divine
- elysian
- empyral
- empyrean
- eternal
- ethereal
- godlike
- hallowed
- holy
- immortal
- otherworldly
- seraphic
- spiritual
- sublime
- supernal
- supernatural
- transcendental
- transmundane
- airy
- attractive
- beautiful
- bonny
- charming
- choice
- comely
- cute
- darling
- delectable
- delicious
- delightful
- diaphanous
- elegant
- ethereal
- exquisite
- fair
- feeble
- frail
- graceful
- lacy
- light
- lovely
- neat
- nice
- palatable
- petite
- pleasing
- precious
- pretty
- rare
- recherché
- refined
- savory
- select
- soft
- subtle
- superior
- sweet
- tasteful
- tasty
- tender
- thin
- toothsome
- trim
- well-made
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adj.
• aerial (adjective)
- loftier,
- lofty,
- up above,
- aeronautical,
- birdlike.
• airy (adjective)
- vaporous.
• angelic (adjective)
- rapturous,
- righteous,
- virtuous,
- radiant,
- holy,
- archangelic.
• atmospheric (adjective)
- more climatic,
- most barometrical,
- most climatic,
- more baroscopic,
- more barometrical,
- most meteorological,
- more meteorological,
- most baroscopic.
• beautiful (adjective)
- elegant,
- gorgeous,
- splendid,
- breathtaking,
- beautiful,
- stunning,
- glorious,
- ravishing.
• celestial (adjective)
- sub lime,
- more olympian,
- hallowed,
- most olympian,
- trans-mundane,
- more empyral,
- eternal,
- trans mundane,
- super-natural,
- more transmundane,
- sub-lime,
- more transcendental,
- most transmundane,
- most elysian,
- super natural,
- most empyral,
- more elysian.
• dainty (adjective)
- sweetest,
- rarest,
- more recherche,
- more darling,
- de-lightful,
- re fined,
- graceful,
- palatable,
- most darling,
- sweeter,
- well-made,
- well made,
- most recherche,
- wellmade,
- de lightful.
• delicate (adjective)
- more fragile,
- more shattery,
- most shatterable,
- most gossamery,
- fainter,
- more muted,
- most fracturable,
- most fine-grained,
- more shatterable,
- more fracturable,
- most finegrained,
- most fine grained,
- more gossamery,
- more fine grained,
- more fine-grained,
- more finegrained,
- most shattery,
- more hairline,
- most muted,
- most hairline,
- fine grained,
- finegrained.
• delicate, heavenly (adjective)
- gaseous,
- empyrean,
- filmy,
- ghostly,
- fine,
- refined,
- sublime,
- fairy,
- impalpable,
- rarefied.
• disembodied (adjective)
- dis corporate,
- dis embodied,
- most discorporate,
- dis-corporate,
- more discorporate,
- dis-embodied,
- discorporate.
• empyreal (adjective)
- in-spiring,
- up-lifting,
- up lifting,
- in spiring.
• exquisite (adjective)
- dis-criminating,
- matchless,
- out standing,
- in comparable,
- in-comparable,
- dis criminating,
- incomparable.
• fine (adjective)
- more fine-drawn,
- most pulverized,
- most powdered,
- more fine spun,
- trans-parent,
- powdered,
- more pulverized,
- most fine-drawn,
- more quality,
- most finedrawn,
- most fine drawn,
- most fine spun,
- most quality,
- trans parent,
- more fine drawn,
- most fine-spun,
- fine spun,
- more fine-spun,
- fine drawn,
- more powdered,
- Finedrawn,
- threadlike,
- more finedrawn.
• immaterial (adjective)
- supernatural,
- unbodied,
- non-material,
- Discarnate,
- abstract,
- disembodied,
- Disbodied,
- wraithlike,
- nonmaterial,
- incorporeal,
- Asomatous,
- unembodied,
- theoretical,
- eerie,
- imaginary,
- imponderable,
- spiritlike,
- apparitional,
- uncorporal,
- Unfleshly,
- bodiless,
- conceptual.
• incorporeal (adjective)
- in corporeal,
- in-corporeal.
• ineffable (adjective)
- untellable,
- too sacred for words,
- beyond words,
- unspeakable.
• intangible (adjective)
- in-tangible,
- un-sure,
- un-real,
- in tangible,
- un-observable,
- evanescent,
- most eluding,
- un observable,
- most evading,
- un-apparent,
- most unapparent,
- un apparent,
- in appreciable,
- in-appreciable,
- in determinate,
- un sure,
- hypo-thetical,
- more eluding,
- hypo thetical,
- more unapparent,
- unapparent,
- hypothetical,
- more evading.
• invisible (adjective)
- unperceivable,
- Perdu,
- not in sight,
- unnoticeable,
- masked,
- unviewable,
- unseeable,
- ungraspable.
• lank (adjective)
- thin as rail,
- all skin and bones,
- most fleshless,
- all skin bones,
- more fleshless,
- thin as a rail,
- Fleshless.
• light (adjective)
- unheavy,
- featherweight,
- light-footed,
- frothy,
- Imponderous,
- Floatable,
- weightless,
- sylphlike,
- lightest,
- lithe,
- tissuelike.
• nonexistent (adjective)
- null and void,
- ungrounded,
- without foundation,
- passed away,
- Perished,
- few and far between,
- passed on,
- Non-existent.
• nonphysical (adjective)
- nonphysical,
- non-physical.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- meteorological,
- beanstalk,
- Baroscopic,
- dainty,
- Stalky,
- Pulverulent,
- not of this world,
- tenuous,
- supersensory,
- extra ordinary,
- unfathomed,
- unearthly,
- scraggiest,
- thin,
- aery,
- light as a feather,
- beatific,
- reedy,
- shatterable,
- atmospheric,
- Hyperphysical,
- marvellous,
- transmundane,
- scraggy,
- invisible,
- spiritual,
- weedy,
- Vapory,
- twiglike,
- undernourished,
- supernal,
- Gossamery,
- Halituous,
- daydreamy,
- unsubstantial,
- intangible,
- climatic,
- empyral,
- fracturable,
- sticker,
- unworldly,
- angelic,
- Barometrical,
- Fine-spun,
- nonmaterialistic,
- ineffable,
- Shattery,
- out-standing,
- fine-grained,
- empyreal,
- immaterial,
- exquisite,
- fine-drawn,
- light,
- recherche,
- hairline,
- membranous,
- unphysical,
- elysian,
- nonexistent,
- subtle,
- demoniac,
- aerial,
- poler,
- delicate,
- twiggy,
- numinous,
- otherworldly,
- lank,
- out of this world.
• otherworldly (adjective)
- magical.
• out of this world (adjective)
- out this world,
- out of world,
- most marvellous,
- out world,
- more marvellous.
• pert (adjective)
- ethereal.
• spiritual (adjective)
- most unphysical,
- un physical,
- un-physical,
- more unphysical,
- extra-mundane,
- extra mundane.
• subtle (adjective)
- implied,
- understated.
• supernal (adjective)
- most uplifted,
- up-lifted,
- up lifted,
- more uplifted.
• tenuous (adjective)
- reedier,
- reediest,
- in significant.
• thin (adjective)
- most undernourished,
- more beanstalk,
- more shadow,
- most beanstalk,
- most shadow,
- stickest,
- most pinched,
- more undernourished,
- more pinched,
- polest,
- stilter,
- most beanpole,
- under nourished,
- scraggier,
- more twiglike,
- stilt,
- stiltest,
- under-weight,
- more shriveled,
- more beanpole,
- under weight,
- under-nourished,
- stalkiest,
- gangling,
- most shriveled,
- stalkier,
- most twiglike.
• unbodied (adjective)
- un bodied,
- un-bodied.
• uncorporal (adjective)
- un corporal,
- un-corporal.
• unearthly (adjective)
- not of world,
- un-godlier,
- hair raising,
- un holiest,
- more phantom,
- un-godly,
- un-godliest,
- most demoniac,
- not this world,
- un-earthlier,
- un godliest,
- most hyperphysical,
- super-human,
- un earthlier,
- un earthly,
- un-holy,
- un godlier,
- most phantom,
- un holier,
- un-earthliest,
- un-holiest,
- more hyperphysical,
- un-earthly,
- un reasonable,
- hairraising,
- more demoniac,
- un holy,
- un earthliest,
- hyper-physical,
- un godly,
- not world,
- un-reasonable,
- extra-ordinary,
- un-holier,
- hyper physical.
• unfathomed (adjective)
- unsounded.
• unsubstantial (adjective)
- empty,
- null,
- vacuous,
- phantasmal,
- nonexistence,
- spectral,
- vacant,
- illusory,
- insignificance,
- unconcrete,
- chimerical,
- inessential.
• unworldly (adjective)
- most daydreaming,
- non materialistic,
- un-worldliest,
- un worldliest,
- extra terrestrial,
- most nonmaterialistic,
- un worldlier,
- super sensory,
- most supersensory,
- more supersensory,
- super-sensory,
- non-materialistic,
- most daydreamy,
- more daydreamy,
- more extraterrestrial,
- more nonmaterialistic,
- un-worldly,
- most extraterrestrial,
- un-worldlier,
- un worldly,
- extra-terrestrial,
- more daydreaming.
• vanishing (adjective)
- more evanescence.
• vaporous (adjective)
- mis-tier,
- most halituous,
- more halituous,
- mis tier.
• vapory (adjective)
- more membranous,
- more blurred,
- aeriest,
- most membranous,
- aerier.
• weightless (adjective)
- light as feather.
• wispy (adjective)
- rare,
- wispy.
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- thick.
• celestial (noun)
- astronomical,
- divine.
• delicate (noun)
- fragile.
• ethereal (noun)
- unreal.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- celestial,
- gossamer,
- heavenly,
- airy,
- aeriform,
- insubstantial.
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Other synonyms:
• breezy
- pneumatic.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- godlike,
- girlish,
- sheer,
- watered-down,
- obscure,
- Air-built,
- Laputan,
- steamy,
- saintly,
- fleeting,
- eminent,
- buoyant,
- Pulverous,
- breezy,
- airish,
- impractical,
- airlike,
- Slinky,
- mounting,
- steep,
- exalted,
- frail,
- godly,
- uplifted,
- dreamy,
- haughty,
- Reeky,
- Extramundane,
- Inhalation Anaesthetic,
- etheric,
- sublimated,
- Ozonic,
- aspiring,
- superlative,
- Subtile,
- psychic,
- hallucinatory,
- papery,
- prominent,
- Inhalation General Anaesthetic,
- feathery,
- extraterrestrial,
- Suberous,
- shadowy,
- dreamlike,
- gasified,
- fluffy,
- Suberose,
- diluted,
- incorporate,
- astatic,
- miasmic,
- mousse,
- svelte,
- Towery,
- visionary,
- mephitic,
- imperceptible,
- foamy,
- beatified,
- ether,
- adulterated,
- topless,
- transitory,
- portable,
- Fatuitous,
- watered,
- paradisiac,
- gauzy,
- dilute,
- animated,
- blissful,
- reeking,
- cobwebby,
- volatile,
- chimeric,
- evaporable,
- aired,
- Cloud-born,
- flimsy,
- lacy,
- smoking,
- boyish,
- Oxygenous,
- astral,
- inhalation general anesthetic,
- High-reaching,
- elusive,
- speculative,
- paradisal,
- altitudinous,
- imprecise,
- ecstatic,
- dominating,
- imagined,
- Thinnish,
- attenuated,
- ephemeral,
- diaphanous,
- open air,
- dim,
- aerodynamic,
- inhalation anesthetic,
- paradisiacal,
- oxyacetylene,
- topping,
- roomy,
- occult,
- indefinite,
- phantasmagorical,
- unextended,
- overlooking,
- slender,
- fantastic,
- phantasmagoric,
- souffle,
- attenuate,
- windy,
- Paradisic,
- transparent,
- ascending,
- slim,
- tropospheric,
- high,
- monumental,
- ectoplasmic,
- Miasmatic,
- phantom,
- ghosty,
- illusive,
- high-pitched,
- high up,
- miasmal,
- soaring,
- angel,
- seraphic,
- vaporish,
- thinned,
- willowy,
- slight,
- Fuming,
- exposed,
- weak,
- Wiredrawn,
- upreared,
- downy,
- Gasiform,
- colossal,
- Ethereally,
- watery,
- fancied,
- Uncompact,
- immortal,
- ghostlike,
- wraithy,
- gassy,
- glorified,
- flatulent,
- Cloud-built,
- smoky,
- Fumy,
- towering,
- elevated,
- transcendental,
- thin-bodied,
- false,
- wasp-waisted,
- etherial,
- leger,
- paradisaic,
- floating,
- yeasty,
- Aerostatic,
- Spiring,
- fatuous,
- steaming,
- superlunary,
- fanciful,
- small,
- phantasmic,
- uncompressed,
- Overtopping,
- alfresco,
- psychical,
- vague,
- spirituous,
- blessed,
- misty,
- bubbly,
- toplofty,
- finespun,
- phantomlike,
- vaporing,
- cut,
- gracile.
How to use «Ethereal» in context?
When I hear the word «ethereal,» I think of something that is beyond earthly. It is something that is out of reach, something that is unattainable. I think of something that is beautiful and peaceful, something that is ethereal.
An ethereal being is one that is out of reach and is not physical. They can be in spirit, or in a different dimension. They can be a ghost, or a spirit. They can be a angel, or a demon. They can be anything that is out of reach and is separate from the earthly world. They can be surreal, and mysterious.
1 dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, insubstantial, light, rarefied, refined, subtle, tenuous
2 aerial, airy, fairy, impalpable, intangible, light, rarefied
3 celestial, empyreal, heavenly, spiritual, sublime, unearthly, unworldly
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
ethereal
1 adj Someone or something that is ethereal has a delicate beauty.
FORMAL She’s the prettiest, most ethereal romantic heroine in the movies., …gorgeous, hauntingly ethereal melodies.
2 adj Ethereal means unrelated to practical things and the real world.
FORMAL …the ethereal nature of romantic fiction.
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Synonyms of ethereal
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as in spiritual
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as in fluffy
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as in celestial
- as in spiritual
- as in fluffy
- as in celestial
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ethereal
adjective
Definition of ethereal
1
as in spiritual
not composed of matter
that ethereal attribute that every performer should have—charisma
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spiritual
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incorporeal
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metaphysical
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supernatural
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psychical
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invisible
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psychic
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bodiless
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immaterial
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nonphysical
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insubstantial
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formless
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nonmaterial
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thin
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unsubstantial
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unbodied
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intangible
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vaporous
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diaphanous
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impalpable
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gaseous
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tenuous
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airy
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insensible
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wispish
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gossamery
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physical
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substantial
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corporeal
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material
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tangible
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carnal
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animal
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visible
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bodily
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discernible
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sensible
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noticeable
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observable
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solid
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detectable
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palpable
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heavy
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massive
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fleshly
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bulky
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discernable
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physical
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substantial
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corporeal
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material
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tangible
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carnal
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animal
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visible
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bodily
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discernible
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sensible
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noticeable
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observable
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solid
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detectable
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palpable
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heavy
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massive
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fleshly
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as in fluffy
resembling air in lightness
the bakery’s scrumptious pastries have a wonderfully ethereal consistency
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fluffy
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light
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gossamer
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airy
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delicate
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diaphanous
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wispy
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feathery
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gauzy
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vaporous
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insubstantial
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weightless
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downy
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dainty
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lightweight
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tender
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flimsy
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buoyant
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gossamery
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rarefied
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cobwebby
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lighter—than—air
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unsubstantial
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pillowy
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gauzelike
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cumulous
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heavy
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leaden
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solid
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substantial
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firm
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ponderous
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weighty
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burdensome
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bulky
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cumbersome
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unwieldy
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hefty
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lumpish
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hulking
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heavy
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leaden
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solid
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substantial
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firm
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ponderous
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weighty
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burdensome
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bulky
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cumbersome
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unwieldy
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hefty
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lumpish
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hulking
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3
as in celestial
of, relating to, or suggesting heaven
described as a land of ethereal beauty and tranquility
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celestial
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heavenly
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angelic
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blissful
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angelical
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transcendental
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supernal
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empyrean
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empyreal
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supernatural
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transcendent
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elysian
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cosmic
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unworldly
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unearthly
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beatific
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utopian
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cosmical
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Olympian
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galactic
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stellar
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paradisiac
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paradisiacal
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infernal
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earthly
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hellish
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chthonian
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chthonic
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sulfurous
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worldly
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terrestrial
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mundane
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plutonian
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Tartarean
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dystopian
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anti—utopian
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infernal
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earthly
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hellish
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chthonian
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chthonic
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sulfurous
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worldly
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terrestrial
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mundane
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plutonian
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dystopian
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anti—utopian
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Phrases with Ethereal
Things Ethereal often describes
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ethereal beings
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ethereal appearance
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ethereal leader
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ethereal undead
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ethereal voice
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ethereal song
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ethereal quality
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ethereal units
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ethereal world
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ethereal description
How Ethereal often is described
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captured ethereal
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white ethereal
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deep ethereal
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physical ethereal
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dead ethereal
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natural ethereal
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remaining ethereal
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serene ethereal
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gorgeous ethereal
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low ethereal
Ethereal is the first word in phrase
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ethereal choir
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ethereal plane
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ethereal caste
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ethereal war
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ethereal potion
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ethereal realm
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ethereal blades
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ethereal form
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ethereal crossbow
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ethereal void
Ethereal is the last word in phrase
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tau ethereal
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border ethereal
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become ethereal
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overseer ethereal
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someone ethereal
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high ethereal
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earth ethereal
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broadside ethereal
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marine ethereal
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resident ethereal