Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, heavenly |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, vapory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, indelicate, worldly |
| Main Entry: | angelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweet, kind, and usually beautiful |
| Synonyms: | adorable, archangelic, beatific, beneficent, celestial, cherubic, devout, divine, entrancing, ethereal, godly, good, heavenly, holy, humble, innocent, lovely, otherworldly, pure, radiant, rapturous, righteous, saintly, self-sacrificing, seraphic, virtuous |
| Antonyms: | demonic, devilish, fiendish, unkind |
| Main Entry: | celestial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavenly |
| Synonyms: | Olympian, angelic, astral, beatific, blessed, divine, elysian, empyral, empyrean, eternal, ethereal, godlike, hallowed, holy, immortal, otherworldly, seraphic, spiritual, sublime, supernal, supernatural, transcendental, transmundane |
| Antonyms: | earthly, hellish, infernal, mortal |
| Main Entry: | dainty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, fragile, fine |
| Synonyms: | airy, attractive, beautiful, bonny, charming, choice, comely, cute, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, diaphanous, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, fair, feeble, frail, graceful, lacy, light, lovely, neat, nice, palatable, petite, pleasing, precious, pretty, rare, recherché, refined, savory, select, soft, subtle, superior, sweet, tasteful, tasty, tender, thin, toothsome, trim, well-made |
| Antonyms: | clumsy, coarse, harsh, heavy, rough |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, weak |
| Synonyms: | aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gentle, gossamery, graceful, hairline, mild, muted, nice, pale, pastel, rare, recherché, select, shatterable, shattery, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender |
| Antonyms: | coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong |
| Main Entry: | exquisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, excellent, finely detailed |
| Synonyms: | admirable, attractive, charming, choice, comely, consummate, cultivated, dainty, delicate, delicious, discerning, discriminating, elegant, errorless, ethereal, fastidious, fine, flawless, impeccable, incomparable, irreproachable, lovely, matchless, meticulous, outstanding, peerless, perfect, pleasing, polished, precious, precise, rare, recherché, refined, select, selective, splendid, striking, subtle, superb, superior, superlative |
| Antonyms: | crude, flawed, horrible, horrifying, imperfect, inferior, poor, ugly |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, delicate; sheer |
| Synonyms: | diaphanous, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Antonyms: | coarse, rough, thick |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | ineffable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | too great for words |
| Synonyms: | beyond words, celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, holy, ideal, impossible, incommunicable, incredible, indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, nameless, sacred, spiritual, too sacred for words, transcendent, transcendental, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | definable, describable, utterable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
