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paradisiac en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌpæɹəˈdɪziæk/

Etymology

From Latin paradīsiacus.

Meanings

  1. Of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful.
    • September 13, 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Mrs Blount a paradisiacal scene
    • Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiac vision which only impelled them 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
    • the Paradisiac - State of Infant Nature 1692, Thomas Burnet, Archæologiæ Philosophicæ:
    • the paradisiac beauty and simplicity of tropic humanity 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

Forms

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most paradisiac Degree=Sup lexicographic
more paradisiac Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

paradisiacally

Synonyms

paradisiacal