sublime

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective 1 (written) of very high quality and causing great admiration: sublime beauty * a sublime combination of flavours * The location of the hotel is sublime. 2 (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. sublimely adverb: sublimely beautiful * She was sublimely unaware of the trouble she had caused. * He dances sublimely. sublimity noun [U] noun (the sublime) [sing.] (written) something that is sublime: He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime. IDIOMS from the sublime to the ridiculous used to describe a situation in which sth serious, important or of high quality is followed by sth silly, unimportant or of poor quality