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Definition: The Sublime |
The SublimeNoun1. Nobility in thought or feeling or style. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: The SublimeSynonym: sublimity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ridiculousness | Verb: be ridiculous; Adjective: pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: The Sublime |
| English words defined with "the sublime": Porte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "the sublime": One Step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous ♦ Painters and Artists ♦ Rare Ben, regalia. (references) |
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Screenplays | I am so damn dumb, it would take ten acts of divine providence to raise me to the sublime heights of blissful ignorance, sir (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | In the heart of the mighty Andes--Oroya Ry. bridge in the sublime Infurnillo gorge, Peru. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Our newly established relations with the Sublime Porte promise to be useful to our commerce and satisfactory in every respect to this Government. |
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| Language | Translations for "the sublime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | възвишеното, великото (the great). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ethay ublimesay.(various references) | |
Romanian | sublimul. (various references) | |
Turkish | yücelik (dignity, highness, largeness, loftiness, magnanimity, nobility, sovereignty, sublimity, supremacy), ulvilik. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: bluestem, humblest, subtheme, thimbles. | |
-3 letters: beslime, besmile, bethels, betimes, bismuth, blemish, blueish, elmiest, heliums, helmets, humbles, muhlies, sheltie, stumble, subitem, sublime, subtile, thimble, tumbles. | |
-4 letters: behest, belies, bemist, bemuse, besmut, betels, bethel, betime, betise, blites, blithe, bluest, bluets, bluish, blumes, bushel, bustle, butles, elemis, elites, elutes, helium, helmet, humble, hustle, imbues, lethes, limbus. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: hemimetabolous. | |
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