ethereal

Adjective

• characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
  • this smallest and most ethereal of birds
    
  • gossamer shading through his playing
    

• of heaven or the spirit
  • celestial peace
    
  • ethereal melodies
    
  • the supernal happiness of a quiet death
    

• of or containing or dissolved in ether
  • ethereal solution
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  gossamer , celestial , supernal , aeriform , aerial , airy , aery