1. Inspiring awe
   "the sublime beauty of the night";
   - empyreal, empyrean
    
2. Worthy of adoration or reverence
   "The sublime beauty of the cathedral";
   - reverend
    
3. Of superior moral, intellectual, or spiritual quality; rising above the ordinary or mundane
   "The philosopher's sublime thoughts influenced generations";
   - exalted, elevated, grand, high-flown, lofty, rarefied, rarified
    
4. Greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
   "the sublime absurdity of the creative process"; "His face assumed an expression of sublime conceit";
   - supreme
    
5. [archaic] Lifted up or set high
   "their hearts were jocund and sublime"

1. Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapour without first melting
   "some salts sublime when heated"; "sublime iodine";
   - sublimate
    
2. Vaporize and then condense right back again
   "The dry ice sublimed in the warm room";
   - sublimate

Derived forms: sublimer, sublimed, sublimes, subliming, sublimest

See also: cock-a-hoop [informal], elated, gleeful, gleesome [archaic], glorious, high-minded, idealistic, joyful, jubilant, max [informal], maximal, maximum, noble, noble-minded, on top of the world [informal], sacred, sublimed

Type of: aerify, change, gasify, vaporise [Brit], vaporize

Encyclopedia: Sublime, Texas