Qualities
Synonyms for ethereal
Synonyms for ethereal: aerial and gossamer. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for ethereal
- aerialadjective, in the sense "characterized by lightness and insubstantiality"
- gossameradjective, in the sense "characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of ethereal, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
Physical rather than ethereal forms.
The true synonym
aerial
Same sentence, swapped: Physical rather than aerial forms.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- bubbly
- occult
- cut
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
This smallest and most ethereal of birds.
The true synonym
gossamer
Same sentence, swapped: This smallest and most gossamer of birds.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for ethereal in the sentence quoted.
- celestial
- bubbly
- ghostly
Where ethereal turns up in the game
ethereal is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where ethereal is the trap
- astraladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stellar, in the sense "being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars", with ethereal sitting one tile away.
Play ethereal
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ethereal reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ethereal carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.