Main entry: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal
Definition: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
Usage: figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away- Thomas Carlyle; aerial fancies; an airy apparition; physical rather than ethereal forms
Main entry: ethereal, gossamer
Definition: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
Usage: this smallest and most ethereal of birds; gossamer shading through his playing
Main entry: supernal, celestial, ethereal
Definition: of heaven or the spirit
Usage: celestial peace; ethereal melodies; the supernal happiness of a quiet death
Main entry: ethereal
Definition: of or containing or dissolved in ether
Usage: ethereal solution