empyreal

/,empai'ri:əl/

Thân thiện

The empyreal sky at dusk is a breathtaking sight.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to the sky or heavens; celestial: Describing something that belongs to or is characteristic of the highest heaven or the celestial realm.
   • Sublime; inspiring awe: Describing something of such elevated beauty, grandeur, or excellence that it evokes a profound feeling of reverence, wonder, or admiration.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The poet described the sunset's colors as an empyreal display. (The poet described the sunset's colors as a celestial or awe-inspiring display.)
  • They felt an empyreal peace while gazing at the star-filled sky. (They felt a sublime, heavenly peace while gazing at the star-filled sky.)

Advanced Usage

• Empyreal heights/realms: Used to describe the highest, most sublime levels of achievement, thought, or existence.
  • The philosopher's theories reached empyreal heights of abstraction.
• Empyreal beauty: Used to describe beauty that is so perfect it seems divine or otherworldly.
  • The symphony's final movement possessed an empyreal beauty that left the audience breathless.

Variants and Related Words

• Empyrean (adjective/noun): Often used interchangeably with "empyreal." As a noun, it can refer specifically to the highest heaven, believed in ancient cosmology to be the realm of pure fire or light.
  • They searched the empyrean for answers. (They searched the highest heaven for answers.)

Synonyms

• Celestial: Pertaining to the sky or heavens.
• Heavenly: Of or like heaven; divine.
• Sublime: Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
• Ethereal: Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

Antonyms

• Earthly: Relating to the earth or human life on earth; mundane.
• Terrestrial: Of or on the earth; worldly.
• Mundane: Lacking interest or excitement; dull; of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. inspiring awe
   • well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity- M.S.Dworkin
   • empyrean aplomb- Hamilton Basso
   • the sublime beauty of the night
2. of or relating to the sky or heavens
   • the empyrean sphere

Từ đồng nghĩa

• empyrean
• sublime