Ethereal
adjective
Extremely light and delicate, as if not from this world.
With her pale skin and light hair, she looked so ethereal.
Often appears as...
- ethereal beauty
- ethereal light
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Poetic
adjective
Relating to the air or atmosphere.
Our flight was delayed due to ethereal conditions.
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Pertaining to the region of the upper air; heavenly.
We marveled at the ethereal beauty of the night sky.
Often appears as...
- ethereal beauty
- ethereal light
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Literary
adjective
Extremely light and delicate, as if not from this world.
With her pale skin and light hair, she looked so ethereal.
Often appears as...
- ethereal beauty
- ethereal light
Usage tips
Poetic
adjective
Relating to the air or atmosphere.
Our flight was delayed due to ethereal conditions.
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Pertaining to the region of the upper air; heavenly.
We marveled at the ethereal beauty of the night sky.
Often appears as...
- ethereal beauty
- ethereal light
Usage tips
Literary
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Pro Tip 1/3Surreal Impression
Use ethereal to describe something that seems too perfect for this world, giving a surreal feeling.
The dancer's movements were so smooth, they had an ethereal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Fragile Nature
Ethereal often suggests a form of fragility or delicacy that seems nearly intangible.
The glass artist's latest work has an ethereal thinness to it.
Pro Tip 3/3Fantasy Context
Frequently used in fantasy or fiction to describe unearthly characters or settings.
The forest was filled with ethereal creatures, glowing softly in the moonlight.
Pro Tip 1/3Surreal Impression
Use ethereal to describe something that seems too perfect for this world, giving a surreal feeling.
The dancer's movements were so smooth, they had an ethereal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Fragile Nature
Ethereal often suggests a form of fragility or delicacy that seems nearly intangible.
The glass artist's latest work has an ethereal thinness to it.
Pro Tip 3/3Fantasy Context
Frequently used in fantasy or fiction to describe unearthly characters or settings.
The forest was filled with ethereal creatures, glowing softly in the moonlight.
Pro Tip 1/3Surreal Impression
Use ethereal to describe something that seems too perfect for this world, giving a surreal feeling.
The dancer's movements were so smooth, they had an ethereal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Fragile Nature
Ethereal often suggests a form of fragility or delicacy that seems nearly intangible.
The glass artist's latest work has an ethereal thinness to it.
Pro Tip 3/3Fantasy Context
Frequently used in fantasy or fiction to describe unearthly characters or settings.
The forest was filled with ethereal creatures, glowing softly in the moonlight.
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Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...
creates ethereal sculptures and installations that really marry the organic to the industrial, and brings, like Subodh, the local global. These are actually wires wrapped in muslin and steeped in vegetable dye. And she arranges them so that the viewer actually has to navigate through the space,
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Understanding the colors...
inspires me to practice the art of careful observation and to be able to navigate nimbly between things as large as a distant landscape and a small and ethereal as curls of smoke now that humans are able to discover and to shape the world on the nano scale these are
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Sara Lewis: The loves...
I've been lucky enough to answer some of these questions as I've explored this nocturnal world. Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly,
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How The Moon Affects Our...
and then perhaps more fascinating of all for me the moon has inspired painters some of the greatest works about around the world have been inspired by moonlight and have been trying to capture the ethereal qualities of the light so 50 years on from man first
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Einstein's miracle year...
and realized it also implied that mass and energy, one apparently solid and the other supposedly ethereal, were actually equivalent. And their relationship could be expressed in what was to become the most famous and consequential equation in
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Aomawa Shields: How...
that control whether a planet can support life. Take the planet Venus. It's named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky. But spacecraft measurements revealed a different story.
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How your emotions change...
Adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light, it became an insignia of monastic love. This association between the heart and love has withstood modernity. When Barney Clark, a retired dentist with end-stage heart failure,
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Is math discovered or...
existing whether we find its truths or not? Are numbers, polygons and equations truly real, or merely ethereal representations of some theoretical ideal? The independent reality of math has some ancient advocates.
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Art in the age of...
based on hidden data sets that we collected from wind sensors. We then used generative algorithms to transform wind speed, gust and direction into an ethereal data pigment.
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Small House Seems Large...
confined spaces present a very material problem for Japanese architects which they often resolved using ethereal
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Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...
creates ethereal sculptures and installations that really marry the organic to the industrial, and brings, like Subodh, the local global. These are actually wires wrapped in muslin and steeped in vegetable dye. And she arranges them so that the viewer actually has to navigate through the space,
Video examples
Understanding the colors...
inspires me to practice the art of careful observation and to be able to navigate nimbly between things as large as a distant landscape and a small and ethereal as curls of smoke now that humans are able to discover and to shape the world on the nano scale these are
Video examples
Sara Lewis: The loves...
I've been lucky enough to answer some of these questions as I've explored this nocturnal world. Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly,
Video examples
How The Moon Affects Our...
and then perhaps more fascinating of all for me the moon has inspired painters some of the greatest works about around the world have been inspired by moonlight and have been trying to capture the ethereal qualities of the light so 50 years on from man first
Video examples
Einstein's miracle year...
and realized it also implied that mass and energy, one apparently solid and the other supposedly ethereal, were actually equivalent. And their relationship could be expressed in what was to become the most famous and consequential equation in
Video examples
Aomawa Shields: How...
that control whether a planet can support life. Take the planet Venus. It's named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky. But spacecraft measurements revealed a different story.
Video examples
How your emotions change...
Adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light, it became an insignia of monastic love. This association between the heart and love has withstood modernity. When Barney Clark, a retired dentist with end-stage heart failure,
Video examples
Is math discovered or...
existing whether we find its truths or not? Are numbers, polygons and equations truly real, or merely ethereal representations of some theoretical ideal? The independent reality of math has some ancient advocates.
Video examples
Art in the age of...
based on hidden data sets that we collected from wind sensors. We then used generative algorithms to transform wind speed, gust and direction into an ethereal data pigment.
Video examples
Small House Seems Large...
confined spaces present a very material problem for Japanese architects which they often resolved using ethereal
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Carl Maria von Weber
German Composer
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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Natalie Prass
American Musician
When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
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Jamie Wyeth
American Artist
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
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Jessica Hecht
American Actress
People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.
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Adelaide Clemens
Australian Actress
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
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Curt Smith
English Musician
Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.
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Jenna Dewan
American Actress
I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.
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James McBride
American Writer
I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.
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Genesis P-Orridge
English Musician
Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.
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Carl Maria von Weber
German Composer
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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Natalie Prass
American Musician
When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
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Jamie Wyeth
American Artist
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
Quote examples
Jessica Hecht
American Actress
People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.
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Adelaide Clemens
Australian Actress
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
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Curt Smith
English Musician
Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.
Quote examples
Jenna Dewan
American Actress
I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.
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James McBride
American Writer
I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.
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Genesis P-Orridge
English Musician
Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.
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