transcendent
Surpassing usual limitsSurpassing usual limits.
» You believe that love is transcendent and eternal.
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4 sensesSurpassing usual limits.
exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
Supreme in excellence.
Beyond the range of usual perception.
beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
Free from constraints of the material world.
Examples
5 sentencesYou believe that love is transcendent and eternal.
Is god an immanent or a transcendent being?
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. — carlosalberto
deWas ich wirklich wollte, war, mein Leben damit zu verbringen, mir etwas Transzendentes vorzustellen. — carlosalberto
Often in the darkest of times, artists can be at their most transcendent.
In the atom, in the cell, in the cosmos, Transcendent Intelligence is perceptible.
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| Comparative | more transcendent Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most transcendent Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence:surpassing
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.