ethereal
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(s) 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
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(a) of or containing or dissolved in ether
- ethereal solution
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(s) of heaven or the spirit
- celestial peace
- ethereal melodies
- the supernal happiness of a quiet death
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(s) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
- this smallest and most ethereal of birds
- gossamer shading through his playing