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Definition: Ethereal |
EtherealAdjective1. 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". 2. (chemistry) 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". 4. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ethereal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Ethereal is a popular computer network debugging and security auditing tool. The functionality it provides is very similar to tcpdump (c.f.), but Ethereal adds a well-designed GUI frontend, and many more information sorting and filtering options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network (usually an ethernet network but support is being added for others) by putting the network card into promiscuous mode.
External Links
- Official Ethereal Homepage
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Synonyms: EtherealSynonyms: aerial (adj), aeriform (adj), aery (adj), airy (adj), celestial (adj), gossamer (adj), supernal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gaseity | Adjective: gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent. |
Levity | Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable. |
Unsubstantiality | Visionary; (imaginary); immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ethereal |
| English words defined with "ethereal": aerial, aeriform, aery, airy ♦ Compound ether ♦ Dutch liquid ♦ Ethereal salt, Ethereality, Etherealization, etherealize, Ethereally, Ethereous, Ethereous oil, etherialise ♦ gossamer ♦ Methal, Methylal ♦ Oenanthic, Orthocarbonic ♦ Skyey, Skyish, Spirit of nitrous ether, Spiritielle, Stethal, Sulphinic, Sulphonic, superlunar, superlunary ♦ translunar, translunary, Tropeine ♦ undulatory theory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ethereal": Bardesanists ♦ celestas, Crusted Port ♦ Ethylene Dichlorides ♦ Jubal ♦ Phospholipid Ethers ♦ Satan's Journey to Earth ♦ WIND. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ethereal": Skyish. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | He danced, he sang: hail spring divine! : ethereal spring h'm -- wine? -pine -shine?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Nimbus C 1" by A. Carlos Herrera Commentary: "Ethereal sky centinels..." |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was the most ethereal flight I had ever witnessed |
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| "Ethereal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Ethereal" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.03% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.97% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ethereal": Ethereal medium ♦ ethereal oil ♦ Ethereal oil of wine ♦ Ethereal salt ♦ Ethereal tincture. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ethereal": non-ethereal, semi-ethereal. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ethereal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i papeshë (insignificant, unsubstantial, weightless), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مادي (incorporeal), سماوى, إثيرى (etherial). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | въздушен (aeolian, aerial, aeriform, air, airy, overhead, sky-borne, skyey, telpher), неосезаем (impalpable, intangible), неземен (supermundane, unearthly, unworldly, weird), небесен (celestial, empyreal, empyrean, heavenly, skyey, spheric, sphery, superlunary, supernal), ефирен (aerial, airy, fairy, gossamer), етерен, безплътен (disembodied, immaterial, unbodied). (various references) | |
Chinese | 飘渺. (various references) | |
Czech | éterický (etherial). (various references) | |
Danish | flygtig vegetabilsk olie (essential oil, ethereal oil). (various references) | |
Dutch | etherisch. (various references) | |
Farsi | نازک (Attenuate, Eggshell, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Slim, Soft, Spare, Tenuous), لطف (Boon, Kindness), سماوی (Celestial, Heavenly), علوی (Astral, Celestial, Empyreal), اتری , اسمانی (Celestial, Empyreal, Heavenly, Olympiad, Skiey), اثیری , رقیق (Attenuate, Rare, Thin, Watery), روحانی (Clergyman, Heavenly, Priest, Religious, Sacred, Unworldly). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuvainen (evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, passing, volatile), tuva (evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, passing, volatile). (various references) | |
French | éthéré (etherial). (various references) | |
German | ätherisch. (various references) | |
Greek | αιθέριοσ (exquisite), ανάεροσ (hovering). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמימי (celestial, heavenly, sublime, supernal), אתרי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | légies (aerial, airy), éteri, tündéri (fairy), könnyed (airy, colloquial, facile, fluent, free and easy, graceful, jaunty, light, lightsome, off hand, off-handed, tripping). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sangat ringan. (various references) | |
Italian | etereo (aerial, airy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 幽体 (ethereal body). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうたい (bowing out, corporeal, ethereal body, hospitality, mailbag, preferential treatment, retiring voluntarily, tangible, warm reception, welcome). (various references) | |
Korean | 에테르 (ETHER). (various references) | |
Manx | neuheiltagh (creepy, eerie, uncanny, weird), eethyragh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etherealay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | etéreo (aerial, aery, airy, etherial, overground), volátil (volatile), impalpável (intangible). (various references) | |
Romanian | eteric (airy), vaporos (aery, airy, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, steamy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), diafan (diaphanous, gossamer, translucent, white), aerian (aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, breezy, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, hazy, skyey, thin, unsubstantial). (various references) | |
Russian | эфирный (aery, airy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | eterski (etherial), eteričan (transcendental). (various references) | |
Spanish | etéreo (aerial). (various references) | |
Swedish | eterisk (aerial), eter- (etheric), himmelsk (aerial, celestial, heavenly), översinnlig (transcendental). (various references) | |
Thai | บอบบาง (eggshell, fragile, gossamer, lily, slimline, slimy). (various references) | |
Turkish | eterik, eter gibi, ruhani (disembodied, ghostlike, ghostly, hiero-, immaterial, psychic, spiritual, unworldly), hafif ve ince, göksel (celestial, heavenly, spheric). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ефірний (aerial, aery, airy, etheric), безтілесний (asomatous, bodiless, incorporeal, unsubstantial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trên thinh không nhẹ lâng lâng; thanh tao thiên tiên (etherial), cao tít tầng mây (cloud-kissing, etherial). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ethereal": etherealities, ethereality, etherealization, etherealizations, etherealize, etherealized, etherealizes, etherealizing, ethereally, etherealness, etherealnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Ethereal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aethereal, Atharva, athereal, ehterial, eithereal, esthereal, etheral, etheread, ethereak, etherial, ethernal, etherteam, ethreal, Ethyrra, Eutheria, eutherian, Netherseale, othereal, Petherham, Wetherdale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ethereal" (pronounced uthi"rēul) |
| 5 | -i" r ē u l | antibacterial, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, cereal, immaterial, imperial, managerial, material, serial, venereal. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, arboreal, Ariel, burial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, terrestrial, territorial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, tutorial, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: haltere, leather. | |
-2 letters: aether, elater, halter, healer, heater, heeler, hereat, lather, reheat, reheel, relate, thaler. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, arete, artel, earth, eater, elate, ether, haler, hater, heart, laree, later, lathe, lethe, ratel, rathe, relet, taler, telae, there, three. | |
-4 letters: alee, earl, eath, haet, hale, halt, hare, harl, hart, hate, heal, hear, heat, heel, here. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: leathered. | |
+2 letters: ethereally, letterhead, waterwheel. | |
+3 letters: bleacherite, cartwheeled, cartwheeler, chanterelle, ethereality, etherealize, featherless, leatherette, leatherleaf, leatherlike, leatherneck, letterheads, pamphleteer, telegraphed, telegrapher, waterwheels. | |
+4 letters: bachelorette, bleacherites, cartwheelers, chanterelles, ephemerality, etherealized, etherealizes, etherealness, heterocercal, heterosexual, largehearted, leatherettes, leathernecks, pamphleteers, superathlete, telegraphers, telegraphese, telegraphies, wholehearted. | |
+5 letters: bachelorettes, earthlinesses, etherealities, etherealizing, freeheartedly, heartlessness, hermeneutical, heterosexuals, leatherleaves, openheartedly, pamphleteered, reestablished, reestablishes, steeplechaser, superathletes, telegrapheses, terephthalate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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