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Antonyms for sublimely

Grammar : Adv
Spell : suh-blahym
Phonetic Transcription : səˈblaɪm

Definition of sublimely

Origin :
  • 1580s, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from Middle French sublime, from Latin sublimis "uplifted, high, lofty," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" + limen "lintel."
  • The sublime (n.) "the sublime part of anything" is from 1670s. Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, is from French la Sublime Porte, literally "the high gate," a loan-translation of Arabic Bab 'Ali, title of the Ottoman court at Constantinople (cf. mikado).
  • As in beautifully : adv in an attractive or pleasing manner
Example sentences :
  • I cared for nothing but that sublimely aesthetic impression.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • “No one would see us here,” said she, sublimely irrelevant, as usual.
  • Extract from : « The Lady and the Pirate » by Emerson Hough
  • And Lorraine's education began, too—but she was sublimely unconscious of that fact.
  • Extract from : « Lorraine » by Robert W. Chambers
  • And heroic, sublimely heroic, may be the Christianity of the battlefield.
  • Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter
  • And all the while America is sublimely unconscious that the joys of childhood are not hers.
  • Extract from : « American Sketches » by Charles Whibley
  • We agree that we have seen nothing in our lives so sublimely beautiful.
  • Extract from : « In to the Yukon » by William Seymour Edwards
  • They were sublimely guileless, divinely charitable and inflexibly austere.
  • Extract from : « The Outrage » by Annie Vivanti
  • How valiently they fought, how serenely and sublimely they died.
  • Extract from : « History of Company K. 1st (Inft,) Penn'a Reserves » by H. N. (Henry N.) Minnigh
  • Lady Hainault was calmly inexorable, Adelaide sublimely indifferent.
  • Extract from : « Ravenshoe » by Henry Kingsley
  • Theology they were, from anything that appears, sublimely ignorant of.
  • Extract from : « The Coming of the Friars » by Augustus Jessopp

Synonyms for sublimely

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