Dictionary

angelical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel + -ical.

Meanings

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
   • "You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said. 2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 02 Nov 2008:
   • O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
   • She was all angelical gentleness. 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

disangelical · angelicalness · angelically · unangelical · archangelical · angelicality

Synonyms

angellike · angelly · cherubic · cherubical · cherublike · angellike · angelic · angelical · seraphic · angelic · angelly