Words Like TRANSCENDENT

We have put together a list of words that are similar to TRANSCENDENT.

3 Alternative Words Similar to transcendent

1 Surpassing Adjective      Synonym Words Like Surpassing
2 Superior Adjective      Similar Words Like Superior
3 Unknowable Adjective      Equivalent

1 examples of transcendent

1 transcendent worth; transcendent valor

10 definitions of transcendent

1 Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others.
2 Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
3 That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
4 exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
5 beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
6 Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
7 Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor” ( National Review).
8 Philosophy Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
9 Philosophy In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
10 Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
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