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| Main Entry: | otherworldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraterrestrial; psychic |
| Synonyms: | alien, ethereal, heavenly, magical, mystical, out of this world, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unworldly, visionary |
| Main Entry: | angelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweet, kind, and usually beautiful |
| Synonyms: | adorable, beatific, beneficent, celestial, devout, divine, entrancing, ethereal, godly, good, heavenly, holy, humble, innocent, lovely, otherworldly, pure, radiant, rapturous, righteous, saintly, self-sacrificing, seraphic, virtuous, archangelic, cherubic |
| Antonyms: | demonic, devilish, fiendish, unkind |
| Main Entry: | celestial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavenly |
| Synonyms: | angelic, astral, beatific, blessed, divine, empyrean, eternal, ethereal, godlike, hallowed, holy, immortal, otherworldly, seraphic, spiritual, sublime, supernal, supernatural, transcendental, Olympian, elysian, empyral, transmundane |
| Antonyms: | earthly, hellish, infernal, mortal |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | impractical/impracticable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | abstract, absurd, chimerical, idealistic, illogical, impossible, impracticable, improbable, inapplicable, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, irrealizable, ivory-tower, no-go, nonfunctional, nonviable, not a prayer, otherworldly, out of the question, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed*, theoretical, unattainable, unbusinesslike, unfeasible, unreal, unserviceable, unusable, unwise, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, won't fly |
| Antonyms: | practicable, practical, probable, realistic, reasonable, tenable, viable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | mystic/mystical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, esoteric |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised |
| Main Entry: | supernal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | celestial |
| Synonyms: | angelic, astral, elevated, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, lofty, otherworldly, seraphic, empyreal, uplifted |
| Main Entry: | transcendent/transcendental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraordinary, superior |
| Synonyms: | absolute, abstract, accomplished, boundless, consummate, entire, eternal, fantastic, finished, hypothetical, ideal, incomparable, infinite, innate, intact, intellectual, intuitive, matchless, obscure, original, otherworldly, peerless, perfect, preeminent, primordial, sublime, supernatural, supreme, theoretical, towering, ultimate, unique, unparalleled, whole, beyond grasp, exceeding, second to none, surpassing, transcending, transmundane, unequalable, unequalled, unrivalled |
| Antonyms: | inferior, ordinary, simple |
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary, arcadian, ideological, pie-in-the-sky |
| Antonyms: | real |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed*, unreal, unrealistic, unworldly, utopian, delusory, in the clouds, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impractical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | abstract, absurd, chimerical, idealistic, illogical, impossible, impracticable, improbable, inapplicable, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, ivory-tower, no go, nonfunctional, nonviable, otherworldly, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed, theoretical, unattainable, unbusinesslike, unfeasible, unreal, unserviceable, unusable, unwise, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, won't fly |
| Notes: | impractical means 'not advisable to put into practice' while impracticable means 'not capable of being put into practice'; impractical or unpractical is something that can be done but isn't worth doing while impracticable means it can't be done at all |
| Antonyms: | practical, sensible |
| Main Entry: | magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magic, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull |
| Main Entry: | mystic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, esoteric, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, mystical, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, witchlike, wizardly |
| Main Entry: | transcendent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | absolute, abstract, accomplished, boundless, consummate, entire, eternal, fantastic, finished, hypothetical, ideal, incomparable, infinite, innate, intact, intellectual, intuitive, matchless, obscure, original, otherworldly, peerless, perfect, primordial, sublime, superior, supernatural, supreme, theoretical, towering, transcendental, ultimate, unique, unparalleled, whole, beyond grasp, exceeding, pre-eminent, surpassing, transcending, transmundane, unequalable, unequalled, unrivalled |
| Antonyms: | inferior, ordinary, simple |
| Main Entry: | out of this world |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | alien, ethereal, extraterrestrial, ghostly, heavenly, otherworldly, strange, superb, supernatural, unearthly, weird, wonderful, marvellous |
| Main Entry: | unworldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritual |
| Synonyms: | abstract, astral, celestial, daydreaming, dreamy, ethereal, extraterrestrial, fantastic, incorporeal, metaphysical, otherworldly, religious, transcendental, unearthly, unreal, visionary, daydreamy, nonmaterialistic, supersensory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, material, worldly |
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