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sublime

/suh-blahym/US // səˈblaɪm //UK // (səˈblaɪm) //

崇高的,崇高,庄严,眇眇

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·limed, sub·lim·ing.

    • : to make higher, nobler, or purer.
    • : Chemistry. to convert by heat into a vapor, which on cooling condenses again to solid form, without apparent liquefaction.to cause to be given off by this or some analogous process.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·limed, sub·lim·ing.

    • : Chemistry. to volatilize from the solid state to a gas, and then condense again as a solid without passing through the liquid state.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.great, magnificent

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 'sublime Tobacco,' but I do not think he carried the practice to excess.

  • To fall from the sublime to the ridiculous is especially awkward, and results in becoming very particularly ridiculous yourself.

  • It was thronged with motorists who generally dashed along in sublime disregard of the speed limits.

  • It is to him that we are indebted for all knowledge of the sublime scenes enacted at the last supper of the Girondists.