Usually means: Light, delicate, beyond earthly realm.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word ethereal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ethereal: Merriam-Webster
  2. ethereal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ethereal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ethereal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ethereal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ethereal, ethereal: Wordnik
  7. ethereal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ethereal: Wiktionary
  9. ethereal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ethereal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ethereal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ethereal: Dictionary.com
  13. ethereal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ethereal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ethereal (horse), Ethereal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ethereal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ethereal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ethereal: Rhymezone
  19. Ethereal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ethereal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ethereal: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ethereal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ethereal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ethereal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. ethereal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ethereal (Disambiguation), ethereal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ethereal (Disambiguation), ethereal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ethereal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Ethereal (Disambiguation), ethereal: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ethereal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.
adjective:  Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
adjective:  Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
noun:  Short for ethereal wave (“music genre”). [(music) A genre of darkwave music influenced by Gothic rock.]

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