- something that is sublime
- He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime.
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’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See sublime in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfrom the sublime to the ridiculous
- used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality
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