Antonyms for ethereally
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : ih-theer-ee-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈθɪər i əl |
Definition of ethereally
Origin :- 1510s, "of the highest regions of the atmosphere," from ether + -al (1); extended sense of "light, airy" is from 1590s. Meaning "spiritlike, immaterial" is from 1640s. Related: Ethereally.
- As in lightly : adv gently, effortlessly
- He was drunk, ethereally drunk with the beauty of the night and with love.
- Extract from : « If You Touch Them They Vanish » by Gouverneur Morris
- He turned his head, and saw a dim, ethereally white figure,—Rose.
- Extract from : « 'Smiles' » by Eliot H. Robinson
- All the girls were beautiful—delicately, ethereally beautiful.
- Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London
- She was ethereally slender, brown-eyed, brown-haired, brown-skinned.
- Extract from : « The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 » by Various
- Where were the flames that had sung to me ethereally before?
- Extract from : « Children of the Market Place » by Edgar Lee Masters
- She had numerous chins, but, imbedded in flesh, one could still trace a likeness to an ethereally fair daughter.
- Extract from : « Lady Cassandra » by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
- The colour sank back out of her face, and the light from the window rested on it ethereally.
- Extract from : « Hilda » by Sarah Jeanette Duncan
- Elsa ran to the door and stood motionless by the jamb, waiting, ethereally white in the moonshine.
- Extract from : « Parrot & Co. » by Harold MacGrath
- The portrait is so ethereally tinted and so firmly modeled that we seem to be looking at a study painted by a lover from the life.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds
- In the East there was a low bar of ethereally pale silver, which turned to amber, and then to ashes of roses, and then to gold.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Wife » by Arthur Stringer
Synonyms for ethereally
- agilely
- airily
- breezily
- carelessly
- casually
- daintily
- delicately
- easily
- ethereally
- faintly
- flippantly
- freely
- frivolously
- gingerly
- heedlessly
- indifferently
- leniently
- mildly
- moderately
- nimbly
- peacefully
- quietly
- readily
- simply
- slightingly
- slightly
- smoothly
- softly
- sparingly
- sparsely
- subtly
- tenderly
- tenuously
- thinly
- thoughtlessly
- timidly
- unsubstantially
- well
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