sublime
suh-BLIMEadjMeaning so grand or beautiful that it fills one with awe
Memory hook SUB-LIME: climb up HIGH for a GRAND view. After climbing all morning, Jamal reaches the summit and watches the sun rise over a sea of clouds; the view is so grand he cannot speak. It is sublime.
From the mountaintop, the sunrise over the valley was sublime.
In context Critics expected a pleasant concert, but the performance was sublime; when the last note faded, the audience sat in stunned silence before bursting into applause.
Similar awe-inspiring, magnificent, glorious, majestic
Opposite ordinary, mediocre, ridiculous
From Latin sublimis, “high, lifted up.”