sublime

6 definitions • 5 examples

extremely good, beautiful, or enjoyable:

sublime beauty

The book has sublime descriptive passages.

very great:

He possesses sublime self-confidence.

something that is sublime:

A great deal of literature is only the obvious transformed into the sublime.

to change a solid directly into a gas without the solid first becoming a liquid, or to be changed in this way

extremely good, beautiful, or enjoyable, and therefore satisfying:

sublime food/scenery

to change a solid directly into a gas without the solid first becoming a liquid