Synonyms of empyrean

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adjective

ˌem-ˌpī-ˈrē-ən 

as in celestial

of, relating to, or suggesting heaven

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• celestial
• heavenly
• blissful
• angelic
• empyreal
• transcendental
• ethereal
• supernal
• elysian
• cosmic
• supernatural
• transcendent
• Olympian
• beatific
• galactic
• utopian
• unworldly
• unearthly
• stellar
• paradisiacal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• infernal
• hellish
• earthly
• chthonic
• sulfurous
• terrestrial
• worldly
• mundane
• plutonian
• Tartarean
• dystopian
• anti-utopian

empyrean

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noun

1

as in sky

a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death

ascended into the empyrean after a life filled with good deeds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sky
• bliss
• heaven
• paradise
• Zion
• glory
• nirvana
• Elysium
• kingdom come
• New Jerusalem
• on high
• above
• elysian fields
• Valhalla
• Beulah
• promised land
• afterworld
• afterlife
• happy hunting ground
• otherworld
• hereafter

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hell
• perdition
• inferno
• Gehenna
• purgatory
• limbo
• Pandemonium
• underworld
• abyss
• pit
• netherworld
• hades

2

as in utopia

an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness

most ticket buyers have no trouble envisioning the empyrean that winning the lottery would inevitably bring about

Synonyms & Similar Words

• utopia
• paradise
• heaven
• nirvana
• Eden
• Zion
• Garden of Eden
• fantasyland
• wonderland
• Camelot
• Cockaigne
• promised land
• Elysium
• New Jerusalem
• Shangri-la
• bliss
• blissfulness
• lotusland
• joy
• arcadia
• never-never land
• fairyland
• dreamland
• dreamworld
• euphoria
• blessedness
• gladness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dystopia
• hell
• anti-utopia
• fool's paradise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of empyrean

Adjective

The event, held high up in skyscraping event venue Glasshouse Chelsea, offered sweeping vista views of the Manhattan and New Jersey skylines meant to evoke the game’s new empyrean setting. — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023

At their best, Harjo’s poems inform each other, linking her different modes, facilitating her tendency to zoom from a personal experience to a more empyrean one. — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019

Louis leaves Prior, drawing the first line in a pattern of abandonment that informs the entire play, and finally stretches all the way into the empyrean kingdom of an absent God. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018

Our badges looked different, we were afforded fewer privileges, and we were certainly kept in the dark about The Algorithm (pause for heavenly-choir noise effect) and other such empyrean secrets. — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017

Noun

Photograph courtesy Netflix At the very top level of the pop-music empyrean, where the K-pop group BTS surely resides, an album release is never just an album release. — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026

Betts is part of the Sox Sensation club with Fred Lynn and Nomar Garciaparra, all wildly popular and productive players who turned out to be supernovas streaking across the Boston baseball empyrean instead of franchise polestars. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022

O’Keeffe places the viewer aloft, level with the bone, high up in the empyrean. — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021

That could quickly propel a few black schools into the athletic empyrean, and change the place of HBCUs in American culture. — Jemele Hill, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019