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Definition of ethereal : 1. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
2. 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.
3. Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.

Synonyms:

light, cobwebby, gay, lively, impractical, heavenly, airy, animated, gossamery, delicate, joyous, thick, insubstantial, aeriform, vaporous, diaphanous, divine, supernal, vapory, aired, filmy, vapourous, see-through, aerial, empyreal, sheer, transparent, fairylike, windy, gauze-like, frolicsome, visionary, celestial, aery, astronomical, airlike, sprightly, fragile, gauzy

bodiless, theoretical, immaterial, unearthly, unworldly, abstract, conceptual, intangible, supernatural, unsubstantial, incorporeal, impalpable, spiritual, eerie, imaginary, imponderable

gossamer, subtle, wispy, rare, fine

chimerical, unreal, insignificance, vacant, weightless, apparitional, empty, spectral, unconcrete, vacuous, phantasmal, nonexistence, tenuous, illusory, inessential, null

Usage examples:

• Our claims are always beyond our deserts, and we are disappointed if our poor, mean, defective natures do not obtain the homage which belongs to those of ethereal texture.
• There was a refined, ethereal gravity and beauty, which it is very unusual to see in a girl of thirteen; an expression too spiritual for years which ought to be full of joyous and careless animal life. - "A Red Wallflower", Susan Warner.
• Away in the distance a huge mass of rock stood out to view, its rugged lines transfigured into ethereal loveliness by a misty veil of tender rose pink,- a hue curiously suggestive of some other and smaller sun that might have just set. - "Thelma", Marie Corelli.