Meaning of PARADISIAC
| Pronunciation: | | `paru'disee`ak
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- [adj] resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness"
- [adj] relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense"
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| | Synonyms: | | elysian, happy, heavenly, paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, paradisiacal, paradisial |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par`a*dis"i*ac\, Paradisiacal \Par`a*di*si"a*cal\,
a. [L. paradisiacus.]
Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise.
--C. Kingsley. --T. Burnet. ``A paradisiacal scene.'' --Pope.
The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. --G.
Eliot.
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| | Related Terms: | | beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, celestial, divine, Elysian, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, extramundane, extraterrestrial, from on high, glorified, heavenly, in glory, Olympian, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, saintly, sublime, supernal, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unworldly |
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