| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surpassing |
| Synonyms: | boundless, mystical, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual, theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, complex, deep, hypothetical, ideal, indefinite, intellectual, nonconcrete, philosophical, recondite, transcendent, transcendental, unreal |
| Antonyms: | actual, concrete, factual, material, objective, physical, real |
| 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: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | godlike, perfect |
| Synonyms: | all-powerful, almighty, ambrosial, angelic, anointed, beatific, beautiful, blissful, celestial, consecrated, deific, deistic, eternal, exalted, excellent, glorious, godly, hallowed, heavenly, holy, immaculate, magnificent, marvelous, mystical, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, rapturous, religious, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified, spiritual, splendid, superhuman, superlative, supernatural, supreme, theistic, transcendent, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual; impractical |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, abstract, chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, hypothetical, imaginary, in the clouds, intellectual, ivory-tower, mental, mercurial, notional, out-of-reach, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unattainable, unearthly, unreal, visionary |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Antonyms: | actual, common, material, practical, pragmatic |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | metaphysical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not physical; without physical presence |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, bodiless, deep, difficult, discarnate, esoteric, eternal, fundamental, high-flown, ideal, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, jesuitic, mystical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, oversubtle, philosophical, preternatural, profound, recondite, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, suprahuman, supramundane, supranatural, theoretical, transcendental, unearthly, unfleshly, universal, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial |
| Antonyms: | concrete, material, objective, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | mysterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, concealed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, alchemistic, arcane, astrological, baffling, cabalistic, covert, cryptic, curious, dark, difficult, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, magical, mystical, mystifying, necromantic, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, sphinxlike, spiritual, strange, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknowable, unknown, unnatural, veiled, weird |
| Notes: | mysterious means of an obscure nature, while mystical means having a divine meaning that transcends human understanding |
| Antonyms: | apparent, known, obvious, plain, public, straightforward, tangible, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | mystic/mystical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, esoteric |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, enigmatical, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterial, mysterious, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, sorcerous, spiritual, supernatural, telestic, thaumaturgic, transcendental, unaccountable, unknowable, visionary, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised |