Synonyms for transcendent
trænˈsɛn dənttran·scen·dent

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1. transcendent

   Intuitive truths are those which are in the mind independently of all experience, not being derived from experience nor limited by it, as that the whole is greater than a part, or that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. All intuitive truths or beliefs are transcendental. But transcendental is a wider term than intuitive, including all within the limits of thought that is not derived from experience, as the ideas of space and time. "Being is transcendental.... As being can not be included under any genus, but transcends them all, so the properties or affections of being have also been called transcendental." Krauth-Fleming "Vocabulary of Philosophy." p. 530. "Transcendent he [Kant] employed to denote what is wholly beyond experience, being neither given as an a posteriori nor a priori element of cognition — what therefore transcends every category of thought." Krauth-Fleming "Vocabulary of Philosophy." p. 531. Transcendental has been applied in the language of the Emersonian school to the soul's supposed intuitive knowledge of things divine and human, so far as they are capable of being known to man. Compare MYSTERIOUS.

   Synonyms:
   a priori, intuitive, original, primordial, transcendental

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1. transcendent

   Synonyms:
   consummate, egregious, superior, unexampled, insurpassable, unattainable, surpassing, supreme, matchless, unrivalled, peerless, incomparable, supereminent

   Antonyms:
   ordinary, attainable, average, common, unsurprising

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1. transcendent, surpassingadjective

   exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

   Synonyms:
   surpassing, prodigious, exceeding, olympian, exceptional

   Antonyms:
   cognoscible, inferior, cognizable, knowable, cognisable

2. transcendentadjective

   beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding

   "the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought"

   Synonyms:
   surpassing

   Antonyms:
   cognizable, cognoscible, knowable, cognisable, inferior

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1. transcendentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pre-eminent, surpassing, supereminent, unequaled, unparalleled, peerless, unrivalled, inimitable, very superior

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1. List of paraphrases for "transcendent":

   transcendental, momentous

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1. Steve Schmidt:

   He almost has to have a transcendent performance. He has to be high-energy, he can't be low-energy.

2. Albert Einstein:

   We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

3. Gary Oldman:

   The world lost an artist of transcendent talent, he was the very definition, the living embodiment of that singular word: icon.

4. John Koenig:

   We like to think that every moment has potential, that there’s something transcendent hidden all around, that if you’d only stop to seize the day, you could hold onto it and carry it with you. But the truth is, most of life is forgotten instantly, almost as it’s happening. Chances are that even a day like today will slip through your fingers and dissolve into oblivion, washed clean by the tides.

5. David Abeles:

   Its been a terrific start to the year with Tiger winning at the Masters. Any time you see a transcendent athlete complete a comeback story the way he did, it lit up the world in a way only he could.