atmospheric
/atməsˈfɛrɪk
/adjective
1Relating to the atmosphere of the earth: atmospheric pollution...
- Air pressure is an important factor which affects the resulting atmospheric climate conditions.
- Oceans are playing a very vital role in maintaining the atmospheric balance of the earth.
- The main advantage of nuclear power plants is that they do not cause atmospheric pollution.
2Creating a distinctive mood, typically of romance or nostalgia: atmospheric lighting...
- Moody, atmospheric guitars create a mood of contemplation without ever going too wildly off the track.
- Working from his farmhouse studio at Over Ridge, he creates his atmospheric motoring images using acrylic and pastel.
- Lots of lovely thick oil paint smeared in heavy layers onto the canvas creates dark and hugely atmospheric landscapes.
Derivatives
atmospherical
- They also sought out Rasmus Nielson, a Danish audio designer, to produce an atmospherical soundscape and bring forth an appropriate ambience to their artwork.
- Rhale had also said that their sensors had picked up signs of intense atmospherical turbulence elsewhere on the barren gravelly plains.
atmospherically
- The interaction between a number of complex, intriguingly developed characters is set against the unusual beauty of remote locations atmospherically captured in steely colours.
- In the 1800s malaria was considered the product of vegetable decomposition - that is, an environmentally induced and atmospherically transmitted disease.
- Century atmospherically recreates London at this watershed moment, reflecting the complex mood of the time, caught between excitement and anxiety at the birth of a new century.