Transcendent
[træn'send(ə)nt;trɑːn-] or [træn'sɛndənt]
Definition
(adj.) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; 'the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought' .
(adj.) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence .
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Definition
(a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
(a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Pre-eminent, surpassing, supereminent, unequaled, unparalleled, peerless, unrivalled, inimitable, very superior.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Consummate, egregious, superior, unexampled, insurpassable, unattainable,surpassing, supreme, matchless, unrivalled, peerless, incomparable,supereminent
ANT:Ordinary, attainable, average, common, unsurprising
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Examples
- They drifted through the wild, late afternoon, in a beautiful motion that was smiling and transcendent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When she reached the top of the slope, in the wind, she looked round, and saw peak beyond peak of rock and snow, bluish, transcendent in heaven. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whatever life might be, it could not take away death, the inhuman transcendent death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is in h umanity that intellect most clearly reveals itself, but there is a transcendent intel lect beyond, union with which is the highest bliss of the individual soul. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But with the Mino, it is the desire to bring this female cat into a pure stable equilibrium, a transcendent and abiding RAPPORT with the single male. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was an universal favourite, and his ingenuity in little things was transcendent. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The moon was transcendent over the bare, open space, she suffered from being exposed to it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The world was all strange and transcendent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Cockatoo of transcendent plumage: attraction, of himself, to all visitors of taste. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She herself was a strange, transcendent reality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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