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transcendent

 
Dictionary: tran·scen·dent   (trăn-sĕn'dənt) pronunciation
 
adj.
  1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
  2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: “fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor” (National Review).
  3. Philosophy.
    1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
    2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
  4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
transcendence tran·scen'dence or tran·scen'den·cy n.
transcendently tran·scen'dent·ly adv.
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Thesaurus: transcendent
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adjective

  1. Of the greatest possible degree, quality, or intensity: extreme, supreme, ultimate, unsurpassable, utmost, uttermost. See better/worse, big/small/amount.
  2. Existing only in concept and not in reality: abstract, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, theoretic, theoretical, transcendental. See real/imaginary.

 
WordNet: transcendent
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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
  Synonym: unknowable

Meaning #2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
  Synonym: surpassing


 
Misspellings: transcendent
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Common misspelling(s) of transcendent

  • transcendant
  • trancendent

 
Translations: Transcendent
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - transcendent (dvs. som ligger uden for erfaringens grænser), som overgår andre, ophøjet
n. - transcendent

Nederlands (Dutch)
transcendent, (alles) overtreffend

Français (French)
adj. - transcendant
n. - (Math) fonction transcendantale

Deutsch (German)
adj. - transzendent
n. - etwas Transzendentes

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (φιλοσ.) υπερβατικός, υπεραισθητός
n. - (φιλοσ.) υπερβατικό

Italiano (Italian)
trascendentale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - transcendente, extraordinário, sublime
n. - independente das limitações do universo material (m)

Русский (Russian)
запредельный, превосходящий, превосходный, выдающийся

Español (Spanish)
adj. - trascendente, sobresaliente, extraordinario
n. - (mat.) función trascendental

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - transcendent, överlägsen, enastående
n. - transcendental funktion (mat.), transcendental sak el. person

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
卓越的, 出众的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 卓越的, 出眾的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 초월적인, 선험적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 卓越した, 超越的な, 抜群の, 超絶的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غامض, مبهم, متجاوز الحد, فائق (الاسم) سمو, تجاوز, تفوق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נשגב מבינת אנוש, עילאי, נעלה, טרנסצנדנטי, אינו ניתן להגשמה באופו ניסיוני (פילוסופיה), קיימת בנפרד, לכשעצמה, אינה כפופה למגבלות היקום החומרי (ישות עליונה)‬
n. - ‮אדם או דבר עילאיים‬


 
 
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