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ethereal

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ethereal in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  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"
    aeriform  aerial  airy  aery  ethereal 
  2. of heaven or the spirit
    "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
    celestial  ethereal  supernal 
  3. of or containing or dissolved in ether
    "ethereal solution"
    ethereal 
  4. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
    "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
    ethereal  gossamer 
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