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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Elysian, Olympian, adulterated, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, asomatous, aspiring, astral, atmospheric, attenuate, attenuated, beatific, beatified, blessed, bodiless, boyish, breezy, bubbly, celestial, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, colossal, cut, decarnate, decarnated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, discarnate, disembodied, dominating, downy, dreamlike, ectoplasmic, elevated, eminent, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, exalted, exposed, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, from on high, frothy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gauzy, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, girlish, glorified, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, haughty, heavenly, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imponderous, in glory, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, lacy, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lofty, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, monumental, mounting, mousse, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, open-air, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, papery, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, pneumatic, prominent, psychic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, roomy, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoking, smoky, soaring, souffle, specterlike, spectral, spiring, spiritual, spirituous, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime, subtile, subtle, superlative, supernal, supernatural, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, tropospheric, uncompact, uncompressed, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unheavy, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatile, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weightless, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wraithlike, wraithy, yeasty

Dictionary Results for ethereal:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

ethereal
    adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as
           impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and
           aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas
           Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition";
           "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform,
           aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
    2: of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution"
    3: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal
       melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn:
       celestial, ethereal, supernal]
    4: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this
       smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading
       through his playing" [syn: ethereal, gossamer]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ethereal \E*the"re*al\, a.
   1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the
      higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere;
      celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
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            Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. --Milton.
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   2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy;
      tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as
      form, manner, thought, etc.
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            Vast chain of being, which from God began,
            Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.  --Pope.
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   3. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether;
      as, ethereal salts.
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   Ethereal oil. (Chem.) See Essential oil, under
      Essential.

   Ethereal oil of wine (Chem.), a heavy, yellow, oily liquid
      consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl
      sulphate. It is the oily residuum left after
      etherification. Called also heavy oil of wine
      (distinguished from oil of wine, or [oe]nanthic ether).

   Ethereal salt (Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a
      base; an ester.
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