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Adjective ethereal has 4 senses
- aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal - characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
Antonyms: substantial, real, material (indirect, via insubstantial)
- ethereal - of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution"
- celestial, ethereal, supernal - of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
Antonym: earthly (indirect, via heavenly)
- ethereal, gossamer - characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
Antonym: rugged (indirect, via delicate)
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