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transcendent

/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/

transcendent adjective: surpassing usual limits.

Adjective

transcendent (comparative more transcendent, superlative most transcendent)

  1. Surpassing usual limits.
    • In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii
    • "One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there."2020 June 13, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024
  2. Supreme in excellence.
    • Both stood silent, gazing on each other; Walter was actually lost in admiration of Lady Marchmont's transcendent beauty.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Letters Restored”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218
  3. Beyond the range of usual perception.
  4. Free from constraints of the material world.

Noun

transcendent (plural transcendents)

  1. That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.

transcendent meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

transcendent in Urdu

فائق, غالب

transcendent in Bengali

transcendent, metaphysical, otherworldly
মহাজাগতিক môhājāgôtik

transcendent in Malayalam

mystic, mystical, transcendental
അതീന്ദ്രിയമായ, ഭൗതികാതീതമായ, മനോവ്യവഹാരാതീതമായ, ഇന്ദ്രിയാതീതമായ, അനുഭവജ്ഞാനാതീതമായ, യോഗാത്മകദർശനപരമായ
matchless, incomparable, peerless
നിരുപമ, ഉപമയില്ലാത്ത, സാദൃശ്യമില്ലാത്ത, അത്യുത്കൃഷ്ടമായ, സർവാതിശായിയായ, താരതമ്യമില്ലാത്ത

transcendent in Kannada

ಅತಿಶಯವಾದ, ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮವಾದ, ಮೀರಿದ

Examples of transcendent in a sentence

  • It all sounds like a Hallmark weepie, but in Robinson’s hands, it becomes transcendent.
  • That seemed the transcendent lesson or moral that my search had revealed.
  • The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.

All 26 example sentences with transcendent

Forms of transcendent

Adjective
comparativemore transcendent
superlativemost transcendent
Noun
pluraltranscendents

Origin of transcendent

From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.

Words formed from transcendent

Questions about transcendent

What does transcendent mean?
Transcendent means surpassing usual limits.
What is transcendent in Urdu?
Transcendent in Urdu is فائق, غالب. See Transcendent meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is transcendent?
Transcendent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce transcendent?
Transcendent is pronounced /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/.

Words near transcendent in the dictionary

  1. transcendence degree
  2. transcendence degrees
  3. transcendences
  4. transcendencies
  5. transcendency
  6. transcendent
  7. transcendental
  8. transcendental critique
  9. transcendental critiques
  10. transcendental ego
  11. transcendental egos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transcendent (page history and authors); transcendent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মহাজাগতিক (Bengali) (page history and authors); transcendent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); transcendent (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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