Synonyms for transcendental

Grammar : Adj

Spell : tran-sen-den-tl, -suh n-

Phonetic Transcription : ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tl, -sən-

Définition of transcendental

Origin : 1660s, from Medieval Latin transcendentalis, from Latin transcendentem (see transcendent). Transcendental meditation attested by 1966.

adj surpassing

Example sentences :

“You are too transcendental for me,” growled Ossipon, with moody concern.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Hegelianism may be said to be a transcendental defence of the world as it is.
Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato

These passages are full of transcendental ideas; do you object to them?
Extract from : « Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 » by Various

These transcendental notions were the beginning of the mental outfit of mankind.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

His may not be a transcendental mind, or one sufficiently elastic for politics.
Extract from : « Kosciuszko » by Monica Mary Gardner

Edmee loved the poets almost as much as the transcendental philosophers.
Extract from : « Mauprat » by George Sand

The 'Titanic' and 'transcendental' Faubourg remained as mute as a mouse!
Extract from : « France and the Republic » by William Henry Hurlbert

In this sort of practice, the engineer has need of some transcendental sense.
Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson

It marks the advent of a new departure in transcendental medicine.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 » by Various

You were not submitted to the agency, of a transcendental power.
Extract from : « The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim » by William Carleton

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