transcendent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/

Definition of transcendent

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Surpassing usual limits.
    “In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.”
    “"One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there."”
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adj

  1. Surpassing usual limits.
    “In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.”
    “"One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there."”
  2. Supreme in excellence.
    “Both stood silent, gazing on each other; Walter was actually lost in admiration of Lady Marchmont's transcendent beauty.”
  3. Beyond the range of usual perception.
  4. Free from constraints of the material world.

noun

  1. That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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