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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, adjective [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.]
1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.
2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, noun That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transcendent
adjective
1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer" [syn: {unknowable}]
2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: {surpassing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "transcendent": Christlike, Christly, a cut above, above, absolute, accomplished, ahead, amorphous, ascendant, better, blind, boundless, capping, celestial, chosen, clear as mud, cloudy, consummate, dark, dim, distinguished, divine, eclipsing, eminent, empyrean, entire, eternal, exceeding, excellent, excelling, finer, finished, foggy, fuzzy, godlike, godly, greater, hazy, heavenly, higher, hypothetical, ideal, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, incarnate, incarnated, incomparable, indeterminate, indistinct, infinite, intact, intercessional, intercessive, made flesh, magnificent, major, marked, matchless, mediative, mediatory, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous, obscure, of choice, one up on, opaque, outstanding, over, paramount, peerless, perfect, preeminent, propitiative, propitiatory, rare, redemptive, rivaling, salvational, self-existent, shadowy, shapeless, sublime, super, superb, superhuman, superior, supernatural, supreme, surpassing, theoretical, topping, towering, transcendental, transcending, ultimate, unclear, unique, unmatchable, unparalleled, unplain, unsurpassable, upper, vague, whole
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