Definitions for Sublime

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Sublime sub·lime

Spelling: [suh-blahym]

IPA: /səˈblaɪm/

Sublime is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in Sublime (beilmsu).

Definitions for Sublime

noun

1. the sublime. the realm of things that are sublime: the quality of being sublime: the greatest or supreme degree.

adjective

1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.:
3. supreme or outstanding:
4. complete; absolute; utter:
5. Archaic. of lofty bearing. haughty.
6. Archaic. raised high; high up.

verb (used with object)

1. to make higher, nobler, or purer.
2. Chemistry. to convert (a solid substance) by heat into a vapor, which on cooling condenses again to solid form, without apparent liquefaction. to cause to be given off by this or some analogous process.

verb (used without object)

1. Chemistry. to volatilize from the solid state to a gas, and then condense again as a solid without passing through the liquid state.

Origin of Sublime

1350-1400; (noun and adj.) Latin sublīmis high, equivalent to sub- sub- + an element of uncertain origin, variously identified with līmis, līmus oblique or līmen linte

Examples for Sublime

And with this selfish, there mingled a generous and sublime sentiment.

“It seems like volunteers for ISIS are surfing for the sublime,” Atran wrote to me on Sunday.

From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.

Ragtime was as sophisticated as Stravinsky, Van Vechten asserted, blues singer Clara Smith as sublime an artist as any opera diva.

Then, we have the pulse-pounding Captain Phillips, the sublime Nebraska, and the insane The Wolf of Wall Street.

You had thought it of such bigness—its concerns of a sublime tragicness?

Life is working here as elsewhere, for some sublime purpose.

The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion.

And credit for that goes to the sublime Jean Stapleton, the actress who brought Edith Bunker so vividly to life for so long.

The answer of the son came with an immutable finality, the sublime faith of love.