Ethereal

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
 * 2) * 1667: Milton, Paradise Lost, book VII
 * Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
 * 1) * 1862: Thoreau, Walking.
 * I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal, as our sky,...
 * 1) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
 * 2) * 1733: Pope, An Essay on Man
 * Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.
 * 1) Delicate, light and airy.

Derived terms

 * ethereality
 * ethereally
 * etherealness
 * etherealization
 * etherealisation
 * etherealizing

Adverbs for Ethereal
daintily; airily; insubstantially; lightly; buoyantly; incredibly; delicately; vivaciously; whimsically; blithely; gracefully; sportively; inexpressibly.

Thesaurus
Elysian, Olympian, adulterated, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, asomatous, aspiring, astral, atmospheric, attenuate, attenuated, beatific, beatified, blessed, bodiless, boyish, breezy, bubbly, celestial, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, colossal, cut, decarnate, decarnated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, discarnate, disembodied, dominating, downy, dreamlike, ectoplasmic, elevated, eminent, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, exalted, exposed, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, from on high, frothy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gauzy, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, girlish, glorified, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, haughty, heavenly, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imponderous, in glory, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, lacy, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lofty, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, monumental, mounting, mousse, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, open-air, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, papery, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, pneumatic, prominent, psychic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, roomy, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoking, smoky, soaring, souffle, specterlike, spectral, spiring, spiritual, spirituous, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime, subtile, subtle, superlative, supernal, supernatural, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, tropospheric, uncompact, uncompressed, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unheavy, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatile, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weightless, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wraithlike, wraithy, yeasty

Etymology
From aetherius:, from  αἰθέριος:.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ätherisch


 * Italian:
 * Polish: eteryczny, nieziemski , niebiański
 * Romanian: eteric


 * Finnish: eteerinen, haihtuva
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: eteryczny, lekki , zwiewny
 * Romanian: eteric


 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: eteryczny, lekki , zwiewny
 * Romanian: eteric