Meanings
comparative more angelically · superlative most angelically
- 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 Gables2 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, CompleteAfter 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 3Synonyms: cherubically, seraphically, cherubically, seraphically
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an angelic manner.
Origin
From angelic + -ally or angelical + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →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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Cite this entry
angelically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically
“angelically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “angelically,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelically.
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