Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
Pertaining to the (real or hypothetical) upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.
To do with diethyl ether.
Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts.
Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
Disappearing, vanishing.
Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
Of plant parts: shed after a period.
Barely there; almost imperceptible.