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Synonyms for ethereally

Grammar : Adv
Spell : ih-theer-ee-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈθɪər i əl

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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