transcendental

Meanings

Plural: transcendentals

Adjective Satellite

• existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; -Aldous Huxley
  • "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"

Adjective

• of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

Noun

• A transcendentalist.
• Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.

Adj

• Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
• Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
• Mystical or supernatural.
• Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
• That contains elements that are not algebraic.

Synonyms

nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural

Antonyms

algebraic

Related Words

transcend, transcendence, transcendency, transcendent, transcendently

Anagrams of transcendental