ethereal

Meaning

Adjective

• Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly.
• Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
• Delicate, light and airy.
• To do with ether.

Related

Similar words

• ethereous, etheric, etherical

Origin

• From Latin aetherius ("of or pertaining to the ether, the sky, or the air or upper air; ethereal"), from Ancient Greek αἰθέριος ("of or pertaining to the upper air; ethereal").