What is another word for astral?

Pronunciation: [ˈastɹə͡l] (IPA)

When we think of the word "astral," we often associate it with celestial beings or the beyond. However, this word is not often used in everyday language. Instead, we can use synonyms such as ethereal, celestial, otherworldly, or transcendent. These words evoke the same sense of mystery, spirituality, and wonder that "astral" does, but allow for clearer communication with those who may not be familiar with the less common word. Other possible synonyms include mystical, supernatural, divine, or heavenly. With such a wide range of options, it's easy to find the perfect synonym to match the tone and intent of your message.

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What are the hypernyms for Astral?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for astral?

"Astral" refers to the celestial or supernatural, but if you're searching for its antonyms, then you're looking for terms that describe the earthly, mundane, or material. "Terrestrial" makes the first cut, meaning "of or relating to the earth." Other options include "physical," "tangible," "real," and "material," which all reference the tangible and corporeal. Meanwhile, "mundane," "ordinary," and "prosaic" hint at the understated and unexceptional. When describing celestial objects, "astral" may have an antonym in "sublunary" since the term specifically refers to objects beneath the moon. But in the sense of a mystical world or inner consciousness, "sublunary" doesn't quite hit the mark.

What are the antonyms for Astral?

Usage examples for Astral

Always, especially when the heather moon tried to give us its golden blessing, an invisible presence seemed to stand between us, as if Somerled had sent his astral body to keep us apart.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
With my hand-lens focused just beyond mandible reach of the biggest soldier, I leaned forward from my insulated chair, hovering like a great astral eye looking down at this marvelously important business of little lives.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
The light of the great astral-lamp on the table mingled with that from the fireplace in a sort of reddish-golden glow, that flickered over the walls and faces in a way to make every thing and every body wear a warm, contented, cosey look, that was just the right thing for a frosty winter evening.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard

Famous quotes with Astral

  • I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.
    Bill Kreutzmann
  • The astral perisprit is contained and confined within the physical body as ether in a bottle, or magnetism in magnetized iron. It is a centre and engine of force, fed from the universal supply of force, and moved by the same general laws which pervade all nature and produce all cosmical phenomena.Its inherent activity causes the incessant physical operations of the animal organism and ultimately results in the destruction of the latter by overuse and its own escape. It is the prisoner, not the voluntary tenant, of the body.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • According to the ancient doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the highest divinity itself — (Plato's "Father") it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races. All of the latter, whether belonging to this planet or to some other of the myriads in space, have their earthly bodies evolved in the matrix out of the bodies of a certain class of these elemental beings which have passed away in the invisible worlds.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • There is a phenomenon in nature unknown, and therefore rejected by physiology and psychology in our age of unbelief. This phenomenon is a state of half-death. Virtually, the body is dead; and, in cases of persons in whom matter does not predominate over spirit and wickedness not so great as to destroy spirituality, if left alone, their astral soul will disengage itself by gradual efforts, and, when the last link is broken, it finds itself separated forever from its earthly body. Equal magnetic polarity will violently repulse the ethereal man from the decaying organic mass. The whole difficulty lies in that 1, the ultimate moment of separation between the two is believed to be that when the body is declared dead by science; and 2, a prevailing unbelief in the existence of either soul or spirit in man, by the same science.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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