sublime
adjective/səˈblaɪm/
/səˈblaɪm/
- of very high quality or great beauty
- sublime beauty
- a sublime combination of flavours
- The location of the hotel is sublime.
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- (formal, often disapproving) (of a person’s behaviour or attitudes) extreme, especially in a way that shows they are not aware of what they are doing or are not concerned about what happens because of it
- the sublime confidence of youth
- He battled on, in the sublime conviction that he was in the right.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.
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