Meaning & Definition of Ethereal in English

1. 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"

2. Of or containing or dissolved in ether

• "Ethereal solution"

3. Of heaven or the spirit

• "Celestial peace"

• "Ethereal melodies"

• "The supernal happiness of a quiet death"

4. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

• "This smallest and most ethereal of birds"

• "Gossamer shading through his playing"