ethereal

ethereal
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. airy, delicate, light, tenuous, fragile, fairy; heavenly, celestial, empyreal. See insubstantiality, heaven.Ant., earthly, mortal.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Delicate]
Syn. airy, fragile, insubstantial; see light 5 .
2. [Celestial]
Syn. heavenly, supernal, empyreal; see astronomical 1 , divine 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a.
[i THIR ee ul]
otherworldly, celestial or heavenly. Also, light, airy and delicate.
His musical compositions were haunting and ethereal.
SYN.: otherworldly, celestial, heavenly, divine, unearthly, sublime, supernal, light, airy, delicate, gossamer, exquisite, tenuous.
ANT.: earthly, mundane, heavy, ponderous
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film: aerial, aery, airy, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, sheer2, transparent, vaporous, vapory. See THICK.

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