sublime

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

sub·lime [sublime sublimes sublimed subliming] adjective, noun BrE [səˈblaɪm] NAmE [səˈblaɪm]
adjective
1. of very high quality and causing great admiration
•sublime beauty
•a sublime combination of flavours
•The location of the hotel is sublime.
2. (formal, often disapproving) (of a person's behaviour or attitudes)extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it
•the sublime confidence of youth
•He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right.

Word Origin:
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.

Example Bank:
•It was a sublime combination of flavours.
Idiom: ↑from the sublime to the ridiculous
Derived Words: ↑sublimely ▪ ↑sublimity
 
noun the sublimesingular
something that is ↑sublime
•He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime.

Word Origin:
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  reverend, empyreal, empyrean, sublimate