sublime
崇高的,崇高,庄严,眇眇
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Definitions
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- : elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
- : impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
- : supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
- : complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
- : Archaic. of lofty bearing.haughty.
- : Archaic. raised high; high up.
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- : the sublime, the realm of things that are sublime: the sublime in art.the quality of being sublime: the sublime of nature.the greatest or supreme degree.
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
While many loved the elegant art piece, made all the more sublime by the artist’s invisibility, others condemned the incursion of any man-made object in pristine desert.
On the other hand, single conifers have a capacity to dazzle as sublime specimens or to drag a landscape down.
That made the ice in the mix sublime — move directly from a solid to a gas.
First, there’s the sublime look of joy on Luke’s face as Jess says, “I was attacked by a swan.”
The essential kindness and sublime silliness of one terrific franchise.
From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.
“I have thought that no incident in the life of Jackson was more truly sublime than this,” wrote Hill.
The decision brings the Military more in line with its veterans who have seen combat and found nothing sublime in war.
“It seems like volunteers for ISIS are surfing for the sublime,” Atran wrote to me on Sunday.
We did it by knowing that the writing is really sublime and just opening yourself to it.
On such occasions his unfaltering impudence reached heights truly sublime.
Byron wrote dashingly about ' Tobacco,' but I do not think he carried the practice to excess.