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transcendent

Transcendent describes something so excellent that it's beyond the range of human understanding.

Transcendent shares the prefix trans, meaning "across," with many familiar words such as transport (carry across), transcontinental (across a continent), and transparent (light shines across). Transcendental meditation carries people across to a higher consciousness. So something transcendent goes across boring reality into super awesomeness in a world all its own. It moves you. Angels are transcendent, and even your favorite novel can be transcendent. Beware of someone who finds the cheesecake transcendent; she may tend to exaggerate.

DEFINITIONS OF: transcendent

1

adj exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

Synonyms:
surpassing
superior
of high or superior quality or performance

adj beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding

“the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought”
Synonyms
unknowable
not knowable
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