Word Meanings - TRANSCENDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. (more info) 1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing

Additional info about word: TRANSCENDENT

Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. (more info) 1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Clothed with transcendent brightness. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRANSCENDENT)

• Incomparable
• Matchless
• unique
• consummate
• transcendent
• Inimitable
• Transcendent
• matchless
• incomparable
• Superlative
• Supreme
• greatest
• highest
• extreme
• surpassing
• extraordinary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRANSCENDENT)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to TRANSCENDENT)

• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• INIMITABLE
  Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. "Inimitable force." Dryden. Performing such inimitable
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• BAFFLE
  1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• SUPREME
  Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• SUPERLATIVE
  Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• TRANSCENDENT
  That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
• BAFFLEMENT
  The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• NEGLECT
  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
• INTERRUPT
  1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course.
• TRANSCENDENTAL
  A transcendentalist.
• TRANSCENDENTALIST
  One who believes in transcendentalism.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• TRANSCENDENTALITY
  The quality or state of being transcendental.
• TRANSCENDENTNESS
  See TRANSCENDENCE
• UNIQUE
  Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• UNCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not accomplished. Dryden.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• COSUPREME
  A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.