ethereal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

   This smallest and most ethereal of birds.

2. 2
   adj

   of or containing or dissolved in ether

   Ethereal solution.

From Latin aetherius (“of or pertaining to the ether, the sky, Heaven or the air or upper air”), from Ancient Greek αἰθέριος (aithérios, “of or pertaining to the upper air”). By surface analysis, ether + -ial.

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