angelically

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UK/ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkli/

adverb

In an angelic manner.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbangelically (comparative more angelically, superlative most angelically)

comparative more angelically · superlative most angelically

  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
    2 more examples

    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

    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

    Synonyms: cherubically, seraphically, cherubically, seraphically

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn an angelic manner.

Origin

Translations

Catalan angèlicament
  • angèlicamentin an angelic manner
French angéliquement
  • angéliquementin an angelic manner
Greek αγγελικά
  • αγγελικά (angeliká)in an angelic manner
Italian angelicamente
  • angelicamentein an angelic manner
Polish anielsko
  • anielskoin an angelic manner
Portuguese angelicamente, angelicalmente
  • angelicamentein an angelic manner
  • angelicalmentein an angelic manner
Romanian îngerește
  • îngereștein an angelic manner

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APA

angelically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically

MLA

“angelically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “angelically,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically.

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