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
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Is sublime a noun, verb, or something else?
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