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Feb 12, 2012
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e•the•re•al



Pronunciation: (i-thēr'ē-ul), [key]
—adj.
1. light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2. extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3. heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
4. of or pertaining to the upper regions of space.
5. Chem.pertaining to, containing, or resembling ethyl ether. Also,aethereal (for defs. 1–4).

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