Meanings
- Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure The guy was absolutely the greatest. Heaven-sent. A pretty youngman into both men & women, but not in their traditional roles!
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivepeculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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heaven-sent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heaven-sent
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