Word Finder - ethereal

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

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ethereal space ethereal regions

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

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Delicate, light and airy.

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To do with ether.

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an ethereal solution

Her hair fell softly around her face and she had an ethereal glow about her.

It was the most ethereal flight I had ever witnessed.

She wouldn't be buried in the ethereal silks of the wealthy or have her hair inlaid with flowers and perfumes.

Nicole looked ethereal with her veil floating, like a vision in white.

This color is perfect for a soft, ethereal look.

They form compounds with hydrochloric acid when this gas is passed into their ethereal solution; these compounds, however, are very unstable, being readily decomposed by water.

Nitric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acids, all more or less impure, were better studied; and many ethereal oils were discovered.

It doesn't really matter what the answer is, because the film does capture an ethereal sense of nostalgic longing for faded glory.

The essential, ethereal, or "volatile" oils constitute a very extensive class of bodies, which possess, in a concentrated form, the odour characteristic of the plants or vegetable substances from which they are obtained.

Even more successful were the papal incursions on to a more ethereal domain.

It has a kind of ethereal appearance when it reflects light due to its iridescence.

This is the allure of Pisces, ethereal and other worldly.

To the south is the valley of the Arve (descending from the snows of the Mont Blanc chain), which unites with that of the Rhone a little below the town; while behind the Arve the grey and barren rocks of the Petit Saleve rise like a wall, which in turn is overtopped by the distant and ethereal snows of Mont Blanc. Yet the actual site of the town is not as picturesque as that of several other spots in Switzerland.

Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?

The light plays across the honey yellow and milky white of the translucent resin lending the piece a delicate and ethereal beauty.

While Edward is the one with the sparkly skin in the infamous Twilight series, it just wouldn't be fun if you couldn't spice up Bella's makeup routine with a bit of your own ethereal glow.

The ketenes are usually obtained by the action of zinc on ethereal or ethyl acetate solutions of halogen substituted acid chlorides or bromides.

A theory sprang up which was supposed to explain the marvellous powers of the Buddhas by representing them as only the outward appearance, the reflection, as it were, or emanation, of ethereal Buddhas dwelling in the skies.

The other, or milder school of Docetae, attributed to Christ an ethereal and heavenly instead of a truly human body.

Recently, however, a problem with an almost ethereal quality cropped up.

The Triton Extreme is also used on Advertising Space; a very ethereal type of string sound.

They may even renounce the world, become mystics, and seek to enter ethereal realms whilst yet alive.

Fraser 's vocals slide in seductive tones over tumbling dolorous chords, delicately spinning out ethereal melodies.

Jo 's own sound is unique, combining her vamping electric guitar style with sophisticated ethereal harmony makes her performance enchanting.

Sam Lakeman 's piano lines still ripple magically alongside Cara 's ethereal vocals.

Pale white eye shadow looks ethereal when teamed up with a silver eyeliner, pale cheeks, and a pearlescent lipstick.

The color is light and almost ethereal, touched by a glint of gold but finishing as a pearlescent white.

If you want to make your face look a bit more decorated, consider adding glitter to your cheekbones, temples or around the eyes for a much more dramatic, ethereal presentation.

White eyes are totally funky yet have that ethereal glow that always looks fresh and otherworldly.

Go ahead and flaunt your extreme color with vivid and rich hues, or go soft and ethereal with shimmering opalescent color.

A theme presented in old Celtic tradition was that of fairies as ethereal beings who were driven into hiding due to the corruption of humanity.

It fit in with an almost ethereal idea of beauty, where women had long, elegant necks, hair piled invitingly high on their heads and a faraway, dreamy gaze.

Her beauty is found in her ethereal grace and her absolute kindness to the visitors to her kingdom.

Whereas some astrological signs such as Pisces might have an ethereal tinge to their physical appearance, a Taurean woman is one that looks beautiful yet still substantial and solid.

Less magical and ethereal than either Chinese or Japanese dragons, Western dragons (taken from the beliefs of the Middle Ages) were far more likely to be ferocious and menacing.

Piloty, Ber., 1902, 35, p. 3 0 93); and by the action of nitrogen peroxide on ethereal solutions of ketoximes (R.

Chavibetol, an isomer of eugenol, occurs in the ethereal oil obtained from Piper betle.

Reynolds, Ann., 1869, 150, p. 224), by passing sulphuretted hydrogen into an ethereal solution of cyanamide (E.

The extract was centrifuged, and the pale-yellow ethereal solution evaporated under reduced pressure in a rotary evaporator.

The death dealer touched a gloved finger to a blank spot on the construction paper, and an orchid sprung up, ethereal and hovering over the paper.

These are colourless crystalline compounds, which are most readily prepared by passing ammonia gas into an ethereal solution of the aldehyde.

The Armenian fathers held that Jesus, unlike other men, possessed incorruptible flesh, made of ethereal fire, and so far they shared the main heresy of the Paulicians.

When it has a very strong and penetrating odour, but when it is thoroughly purified from sulphuretted and phosphuretted hydrogen, which are invariably present with it in minute traces, this extremely pungent odour disappears, and the pure gas has a not unpleasant ethereal smell.

Well-dried hydroxylamine hydrochloride is dissolved in methyl alcohol and mixed with sodium methylate; a solution of methyldichloramine in absolute ether is then added and an ethereal solution of diazomethane distils over.

No work upon earth is wrought apart from thee, lord, nor through the divine ethereal sphere, nor upon the sea; save only whatsoever deeds wicked men do in their own foolishness.

The commercial value of tea, coffee, wine and other beverages may be said to depend largely on the delicate aroma which they owe to the presence of minute quantities of ethereal oils.

Other spiders weave these beautiful, symmetrical, ethereal webs whose designs have been the inspiration for art and mythology for as long as there were spiders, he explained.

She thought she heard ethereal laughter as the fairy danced with him.

Michael Howard, who attained the position in an almost ethereal bloodless coup, has left the party in rather a mess.

Since our atoms cannot absorb photons emitted by ethereal atoms, the ethereal atoms, the ethereal world is invisible to us.