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1. Inspiring awe
   "the sublime beauty of the night"
   - empyreal, empyrean
    
2. Worthy of adoration or reverence
   - reverend
    
3. Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
   - exalted, elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded
    
4. [archaic] Lifted up or set high
   "their hearts were jocund and sublime"

1. Vaporize and then condense right back again
   - sublimate
    
2. Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapour without first melting
   "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
   - sublimate

Derived forms: sublimer, sublimes, subliming, sublimed, sublimest

See also: elated, glorious, noble, sacred, sublimate, sublimity

Type of: aerify, change, gasify, vaporise [Brit], vaporize

Encyclopedia: Sublime