Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ethereal manner; as or with reference to ether.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ethereal manner.
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- adverb In an
ethereal manner
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Examples
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Lanky arm, clutching me closer to the black abysmal ethereally that consumes you when gravity fails.
Tightrope Emily Smith-Miller 2011
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Indeed, she was a slender, delicate woman as women go, but to me she was so ethereally slender and delicate that
Chapter 18 2010
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I don't care how ethereally they play "El Condor Pasa" in the subway: Silence is golden.
Street Singers Worth a Stop Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Eventually an entire citadel, ethereally breathtaking, arose, and continued climbing.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Stefan’s Review Forum 2009
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Lanky arm, clutching me closer to the black abysmal ethereally that consumes you when gravity fails.
Tightrope Emily Smith-Miller 2011
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He had contracted smallpox early and so was immune from the disease that killed more soldiers than bayonets; he hailed from the most populous colony, Virginia; he had fought enthusiastically in the earliest part of the French and Indian War; he was physically tough after his extensive travels in the West, where he had often come close to death; and he was ethereally comfortable with the sound of bullets whistling past his ears.
O Captain, Our Captain Andrew Roberts 2010
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The result was a brief but incandescent heyday of what some critics blanketed as "the L.A. Look"—which ranged from Ed Ruscha's deft and light-touch Pop, through Larry Bell's ethereally Minimalist glass boxes, to Robert Irwin's hovering translucent discs that literally blurred the boundaries between the art object and its environment.
When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011
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But unlike his ethereally sorrowful 2006 novel, "The Brief History of the Dead," most of the heartache and physical ailments here are presented frankly, with a calm, inquiring concern for the pain they produce.
Incandescent Illness And Other Afflictions Sam Sacks 2011
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All the girls were beautiful -- delicately, ethereally beautiful.
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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Eventually an entire citadel, ethereally breathtaking, arose, and continued climbing.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Stefan’s Review Forum 2009
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