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angelically en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkli/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From angelic + -ally or angelical + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an angelic manner.
    • Which would you rather be if you had the choicedivinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?" 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:
    • After hundreds of listens, Odessey and Oracle still sounds like a paragon of poignant psychedelic pop, rendered in orchestral splendor and adorned with indelible melodies that are to cry for, sung in the honeyest of tones by the angelically melancholy [Colin] Blunstone. 2017 April 19, Dave Segal, “The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle 50th Anniversary”, in The Stranger, volume 26, number 34, Seattle, Wash., page 37, column 3:
    • Yet here was this girl, who called him up to the heights of young life again: and a brave girl; and she bled for the weak, had no shrinking from the women underfoot: for the reason, that she was a girl sovereignly pure, angelically tender. 1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most angelically Degree=Sup lexicographic
more angelically Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

diabolically · infernally

Hyponyms

archangelically

Relateds

divinely · heavenly · miraculously

Synonyms

angelically · cherubically · cherubically · seraphically · seraphically

Translations (8)

ro îngerește (in an angelic manner) · pt angelicamente (in an angelic manner) · fr angéliquement (in an angelic manner) · el αγγελικά (in an angelic manner) · pl anielsko (in an angelic manner) · pt angelicalmente (in an angelic manner) · ca angèlicament (in an angelic manner) · it angelicamente (in an angelic manner)