Meaning

4 senses
  1. Surpassing usual limits.

    exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

  2. Supreme in excellence.

  3. Beyond the range of usual perception.

    beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding

  4. Free from constraints of the material world.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal.

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  2. Is god an immanent or a transcendent being?

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  3. What I really wanted was to spend my life envisioning something transcendent.

    ruЧего я действительно хотел, так это провести свою жизнь в мечтах о чем-то трансцендентном.

    deWas ich wirklich wollte, war, mein Leben damit zu verbringen, mir etwas Transzendentes vorzustellen.

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  4. Often in the darkest of times, artists can be at their most transcendent.

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  5. In the atom, in the cell, in the cosmos, Transcendent Intelligence is perceptible.

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Origin

From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.

From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.

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Forms

more transcendent, most transcendent
Comparativemore transcendent Lesson
Superlativemost transcendent Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence:surpassing

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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