Definizione monolingua

ethereal

ethereal (comparative more ethereal, superlative most ethereal)

1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
   • 1667: Milton, Paradise Lost, book VII

     Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.

   • 1862: Thoreau, Walking.

     I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal, as our sky,...

2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
   • 1733: Pope, An Essay on Man

     Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.

3. Delicate, light and airy.

Definizione dizionario ethereal

	etereo
	Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere
	Delicate, light and airy
	Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy
	Light, airy, or tenuous.

Altri significati:

Delicate, light and airy.

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.