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What does ethereal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ethereal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly
  2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
  3. Delicate, light and airy.
  4. (chemistry) To do with ether
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Her musicality shines forth in her lyricism and she made an enchanting peasant Giselle and an ethereal but warm-blooded spirit.
Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
The paintings are all frontal and straightforward, rock-solid and penetrating, yet have an ethereal quality.
Our modern wind harps, with their soothing, ethereal tones and contemporary designs, are in fact based on principles that date back to antiquity.
The slow gait of percussion samples throughout the album provides room for the more ethereal sounds to permeate the listener's psyche.
And the prints represent Abstract Expressionism's entire stylistic range, from fast and visceral to cool and ethereal.

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