SUBLIMATED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sublimated mean? 

• SUBLIMATED (adjective)
  The adjective SUBLIMATED has 1 sense:

1. passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid

  Familiarity information: SUBLIMATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBLIMATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

sublimated; sublimed

Participle:

sublimate (vaporize and then condense right back again)

 Context examples 

Describe her verse, as the critics have described it, as sublimated and spiritual, and you have described her body.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The light/dark mottled pattern of Piri Planitia in the left inset is reflected in the composition map, with the lighter areas corresponding to areas richer in methane – these may be remnants of methane that have not yet sublimated away entirely.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

Doctor Strong looked almost as rusty, to my thinking, as the tall iron rails and gates outside the house; and almost as stiff and heavy as the great stone urns that flanked them, and were set up, on the top of the red-brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The love of man and woman, I had always held, was a sublimated something related to spirit, a spiritual bond that linked and drew their souls together.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No, she was a spirit, a divinity, a goddess; such sublimated beauty was not of the earth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,—all that should have frightened a robust woman,—seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Down below where he lived was the ignoble, and he wanted to purge himself of the ignoble that had soiled all his days, and to rise to that sublimated realm where dwelt the upper classes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)