| 单词 | transcendental |
| 释义 | transcendental (once / 2480 pages) adj Transcendental describes anything that has to do with the spiritual, non-physical world. You could describe the time you spend in the woods hiking as a physical and a transcendental experience. When something is transcendental, it's beyond ordinary, everyday experience. It might be religious, spiritual, or otherworldly, but if it's transcendental, it transcends — or goes beyond — the regular physical realm. The adjective transcendental is used to describe a particular kind of meditation, a specific school of philosophy, and even a type of number in mathematics. Transcendental and transcend come from the Latin word transcendere, or climb over or beyond. WORD FAMILYtranscendental: transcendentalism, transcendentally+/transcend: transcended, transcendent, transcending, transcends/transcendence: transcendences/transcendency: transcendencies/transcendent: transcendence, transcendency, transcendental, transcendently/transcendentalism: transcendentalisms, transcendentalist/transcendentalist: transcendentalists USAGE EXAMPLESLiszt’s “Transcendental Études” are indeed all of these things. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “I sent Bob Roth to her,” he said, referring to a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) Because his is a unique, transcendental talent, he can succeed in a variety of positions and against Sweden he played well shielding the back four. The Guardian(Nov 14, 2016) 1adj existing outside of or not in accordance with nature "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley Syn nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material 2adj of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material |
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