Adjective: transcendent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more transcendent |
| Superlative | most transcendent |
Sample Sentences
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In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:]
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"One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there." [2020 June 13, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024:]
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Both stood silent, gazing on each other; Walter was actually lost in admiration of Lady Marchmont's transcendent beauty. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Letters Restored”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:]
Adjectives inflected like transcendent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.
Verbs referencing "transcendent"
Finnish Adjectives
transsendentti, Finnish Adjectives
transkendenttinen.