Adjective

(er)

Thin; slim.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

(Gaelic languages)  Palatalized.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

* 1667 : , Paradise Lost , book VII

Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.

* 1862 : , Walking .

I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.

* 1733 : , An Essay on Man

Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.

Delicate, light and airy.