Associations to the word «Ethereal»

Wiktionary

ETHEREAL, adjective. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
ETHEREAL, adjective. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
ETHEREAL, adjective. Delicate, light and airy.
ETHEREAL, adjective. (chemistry) To do with ether
ETHEREAL WAVE, noun. (music) A genre of darkwave music influenced by Gothic rock.

Dictionary definition

ETHEREAL, adjective. 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".
ETHEREAL, adjective. Of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution".
ETHEREAL, adjective. Of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death".
ETHEREAL, adjective. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke