transcendent

adj
/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/

Etymology

From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.

  1. borrowed from trānscendēns

Definitions

  1. Surpassing usual limits.

    • In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.
    • "One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there."
  2. Supreme in excellence.

    • Both stood silent, gazing on each other; Walter was actually lost in admiration of Lady Marchmont's transcendent beauty.
  3. Beyond the range of usual perception.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Free from constraints of the material world.

    2. That which surpasses or is supereminent

      That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA