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ethereal 音标拼音: [ɪθ'ɪriəl] a. 轻的,象空气的,天上的 轻的,象空气的,天上的 ethereal adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { aeriform}, { aerial}, { airy}, { aery}, { ethereal}] 2: of or containing or dissolved in ether; " ethereal solution" 3: of heaven or the spirit; " celestial peace"; " ethereal melodies"; " the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [ synonym: { celestial}, { ethereal}, { supernal}] 4: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; " this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; " gossamer shading through his playing" [ synonym: { ethereal}, { gossamer}] Ethereal \ E* the" re* al\, a. 1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. [ 1913 Webster] Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. [ 1913 Webster] { Ethereal oil}. ( Chem.) See { Essential oil}, under { Essential}. { Ethereal oil of wine} ( Chem.), a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It is the oily residuum left after etherification. Called also { heavy oil of wine} ( distinguished from oil of wine, or [ oe] nanthic ether). { Ethereal salt} ( Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a base; an ester. [ 1913 Webster] 229 Moby Thesaurus words for " ethereal": Elysian, Olympian, adulterated, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air- built, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, asomatous, aspiring, astral, atmospheric, attenuate, attenuated, beatific, beatified, blessed, bodiless, boyish, breezy, bubbly, celestial, chimeric, chimerical, cloud- born, cloud- built, cloud- woven, colossal, cut, decarnate, decarnated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, discarnate, disembodied, dominating, downy, dreamlike, ectoplasmic, elevated, eminent, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, exalted, exposed, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, filmy, fine, fine- drawn, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, from on high, frothy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gauzy, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, girlish, glorified, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, haughty, heavenly, high, high- pitched, high- reaching, high- set, high- up, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imponderous, in glory, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, lacy, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lofty, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, monumental, mounting, mousse, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, open- air, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, papery, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, pneumatic, prominent, psychic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, roomy, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight- made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoking, smoky, soaring, souffle, specterlike, spectral, spiring, spiritual, spirituous, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime, subtile, subtle, superlative, supernal, supernatural, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin- bodied, thin- set, thin- spun, thinned, thinned- out, thinnish, threadlike, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, tropospheric, uncompact, uncompressed, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unheavy, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatile, wasp- waisted, watered, watered- down, watery, weak, weightless, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wraithlike, wraithy, yeasty
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