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HEAVENLY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or belonging to heaven or god
Classified under:
Similar:
ambrosial; ambrosian (worthy of the gods)
celestial; ethereal; supernal (of heaven or the spirit)
divine; godly (emanating from God)
divine; godlike (being or having the nature of a god)
paradisaic; paradisaical; paradisal; paradisiac; paradisiacal (relating to or befitting Paradise)
divine; providential (resulting from divine providence)
superlunar; superlunary; translunar; translunary (unworldly or ethereal)
Also:
supernal (being or coming from on high)
immortal (not subject to death)
sacred (concerned with religion or religious purposes)
Antonym:
earthly (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
Example:
heavenly hosts
Synonyms:
celestial; heavenly
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)
Derivation:
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the sky
Example:
a heavenly body
Synonyms:
celestial; heavenly
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
Context examples:
The people, the flowers, the food, and wine—the entire atmosphere—is likely to be quite heavenly.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You really have done your hair in a more heavenly style than ever; you mischievous creature, do you want to attract everybody?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Uranus will send a direct, shimmery beam to each heavenly body in exact degree.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A most heavenly thought indeed!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly—if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore—often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Palais Royale is a heavenly place, so full of bijouterie and lovely things that I'm nearly distracted because I can't buy them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This new moon arrived surrounded by the Sun, Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter—five heavenly bodies in all, counting the new moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
