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etherean

etherean is the archaic form of ethereal.

Meaning of ethereal

Adjective

ethereal (comparative more ethereal, superlative most ethereal)

  1. Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.
    • Near-synonyms: aereous, celestial
    Antonyms:
    earthly
  2. Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
    • Near-synonyms: celestial, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, spiritual, uncorporeal, mystical, otherworldly, transcendental; see also Thesaurus:cosmic
  3. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
    • Vaſt chain of being ! which from God began, / Ethereal Eſſence, Spirit, Subſtance, Man, / Beaſt, Bird, Fiſh, Inſect ! [...]1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 14, lines 237–239

Forms of etherean

comparativemore etherean
superlativemost etherean

Questions about etherean

What is etherean the archaic form of?
Etherean is the archaic form of ethereal.

Words near etherean in the dictionary

  1. etherealizes
  2. etherealizing
  3. ethereally
  4. etherealness
  5. etherealnesses
  6. etherean
  7. ethered
  8. Etheredge
  9. Etheredges
  10. Etherefasgan'du
  11. Etheremadivaru

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