sublime
/səˈblaɪm/ adjective C2- Of an aspect of art or nature: causing awe or deep respect due to its beauty or magnificence; awe-inspiring, impressive. · sublime scenery
- Of flight: ascending, soaring.
- Of an idea or other thing: requiring great intellectual effort to appreciate or understand; very elevated, refined, or subtle.
- Of language, style, or writing: expressing opinions in a grand way.
- Of a person or their actions or qualities: intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior. · a sublime deed
- Of an office or status: very high; exalted; also, used as an honorific (often capitalized as Sublime) to refer to someone of high office or status, especially the Ottoman sultan; or to things associated with such a person. · the Sublime Porte
- Of a thing: consummate, perfect; (informal, loosely) excellent, marvellous, wonderful.
- Complete, downright, utter. · He is behaving like a sublime idiot.
Comparative sublimer · Superlative sublimest
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Marilla, I assure you it was sublime.”
“This action is somewhat too sublime to be natural.”
Faria, as we have said, without having recovered the use of his hand and foot, had regained all the clearness of his understanding, and had gradually, besides the moral instructions we have detailed, taught his youthful companion the patient and sublime duty of a prisoner, who learns to make something from nothing.
Morrel raised his two hands to heaven with an expression of resignation and sublime gratitude.
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