Word.ws English Dictionary

ethereous

ethereous adjective: formed of ether; ethereal.

Adjective

ethereous (comparative more ethereous, superlative most ethereous)

  1. (obsolete) Formed of ether; ethereal.
    • this ethereous mould whereon we stand1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (obsolete) Of or resembling ether.

Forms of ethereous

comparativemore ethereous
superlativemost ethereous

Origin of ethereous

Latin aethereus, from Ancient Greek.

Questions about ethereous

What does ethereous mean?
Ethereous means formed of ether; ethereal.
What part of speech is ethereous?
Ethereous is an adjective.

Words near ethereous in the dictionary

  1. ethered
  2. Etheredge
  3. Etheredges
  4. Etherefasgan'du
  5. Etheremadivaru
  6. ethereous
  7. Ethereum
  8. etherial
  9. etherially
  10. etheric
  11. etherical

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ethereous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ethereous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ethereous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.