empyrean

¹em·py·re·an

adj \-ən\

Definition of EMPYREAN

: empyreal

Examples of EMPYREAN

1. <movie scenes set in heaven often suggest that harps are the favored instruments for empyrean music>

First Known Use of EMPYREAN

15th century

Related to EMPYREAN

Synonyms: elysian, empyreal, celestial, ethereal, heavenly, supernal

Antonyms: chthonic (also chthonian), hellish, infernal, plutonian, sulfurous, Tartarean

Related Words: supernatural, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unworldly; angelic (or angelical), beatific, blissful; Olympian, paradisiacal (or paradisiac), utopian; cosmic (also cosmical), galactic, stellar

Near Antonyms: earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly; anti-utopian, dystopian

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