sublime

[US]/səˈblaɪm/
[UK]/səˈblaɪm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. inspiring awe; extreme; outstanding; majestic
n. the highest point
vt. to purify; to elevate; to refine
vi. to elevate; to purify; to become noble.

Phrases & Collocations

sublime beauty

sublime music

sublime art

sublime experience

Example Sentences

Mozart's sublime piano concertos.

he had the sublime confidence of youth.

The book contains sublime descriptive passages.

these crystals could be sublimed under a vacuum.

Mr.Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.

His works as an artist range from the sublime to the ridiculous, with very little in between.

When the miracle of metamorphosis is complete, the eclosing, or rupture of a chrysalid, is one of nature's most sublime moments.

Thomas Carlyle, notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.

In this case, the landfill leachates can be purified effectively by the method of Sublime Micrometre Filtration(SMF).

Gucci black GG canvas 'Aviatrix' large boston bag Add some luxury into your life with this sublime GG canvas 'Aviatrex' bag that features the signature Gucci logo crest.

John Milton, born 400 years ago today, was not just “the sublime English poet” but also the language's greatest word coiner, an article says.

Rising out of the mist amid some of the most sublime alpine scenery in Europe, a spa hotel built on the site of Adolf Hitler's mountain eyrie hopes to exorcise the ghost of the Nazi leader.

?So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God.

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