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What (who) is ethereal - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Ethereal (disambiguation)

ethereal         
1.
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.
ADJ
2.
Ethereal means unrelated to practical things and the real world. (FORMAL)
...the ethereal nature of romantic fiction.
ADJ
ethereal         
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(also etherial)
¦ adjective
1. extremely delicate and light, in a way that seems not to be of this world.
2. Chemistry (of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent.
Derivatives
ethereality noun
etherealize or etherealise verb
ethereally adverb
Origin
C16: via L. from Gk aitherios (from aither 'ether') + -al.
ethereal         
a.
1.
Airy, aerial, empyreal.
2.
Light, volatile, subtile, tenuous, attenuated, sublimated.
3.
Subtilized, subtile, light, airy, aerial, refined, delicate, spirit-like, fairy.
4.
Celestial, heavenly.

Wikipedia

Ethereal

Ethereal may refer to:

  • Ethereal (horse), a horse that won Australia's Caulfield Cup as well as Melbourne Cup in 2001
  • Ethereal wave, or simply ethereal, a subgenre of dark wave music
  • Wireshark, formerly named Ethereal, a free and open-source packet analyzer
  • Ethereal (Album), $NOT’s album
Examples of use of ethereal
1. The moonlight has an ethereal, luminescent quality.‘
2. The paintings are truculent, ethereal, jovial, serene.
3. Everyone fell silent, admiring the ethereal beauty.
4. The sound certainly fit the place – ethereal, sweet, and pure.
5. Her talking voice couldn‘t be more different from her ethereal singing voice.