heavenly

comparative heavenlier · comparative more heavenly · superlative heavenliest · superlative most heavenly · alternative Heavenly

1. lifestyleOf or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods.

   Heavenly Father, I come to You as Your child, kicking and screaming.

   Synonyms: celestial, celest, otherworldly, ethereal, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, transcendental · Antonyms: earthly, worldly, worldy, terrestrial, material, mundane, sublunar, sublunary

2. Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.

   The other heavenly bodies are primarily controlled by the attractive force of the Sun.

   Synonyms: celestial

3. figurativelyStrongly or sublimely good, beautiful, or pleasurable.

   Oh, that's absolutely heavenly. Gimme some more.

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   1817, Charles Phillips (author-editor), Speech in the Case of O′Mullan v. M′Korkill, The Speeches of Charles Phillips, page 131, No doubt, you have all personally considered — no doubt, you have all personally experienced, that of all the blessings which it has pleased Providence to allow us to cultivate, there is not one which breathes a purer fragrance, or bears an heavenlier aspect than education.

   So he flew down and got that acorn, and fetched it up and dropped it in, and was just tilting his head back, with the heavenliest smile on his face, when all of a sudden he was paralyzed into a listening attitude and that smile faded gradually out of his countenance like breath off’n a razor, and the queerest look of surprise took its place.

   1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 39

   Everything is wonderful / Being here is heavenly

   1987, Gary Clark, “Mary's Prayer”, performed by Danny Wilson

   Synonyms: paradisal, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisic, acceptable, agreeable, all right, amazing

comparative more heavenly · superlative most heavenly · alternative Heavenly

1. In a manner like that of heaven; by the influence or agency of heaven; divinely, miraculously.

   by night [she] saw that God in her armes, saying moreover unto her, that the next day, the first man she met withall, should heavenly pay her her wages.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

2. To a degree such as to elicit great pleasure.

   Then, we taste the refried beans and the rice, and they are so heavenly delicious.

   2003, Ruben Soto, Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul, page 136

1. A female given name.

comparative more Heavenly · superlative most Heavenly

1. Alternative letter-case form of heavenly.

   Do I have some problem with a Heavenly life of constant bliss and musical achievement?

   2015 January/February, Eric Schwitzgebel, “Out of the Jar”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 128, number 1/2

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   Nothing stands between you and her, except God of course and a Heavenly host with flaming swords.

   1990, Reynolds Price, The Tongues of Angels, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 9

   As we learn his story (viewing from a Heavenly perspective along with his nominated second-class guardian angel, Clarence), we see that from the time he was a child he wanted to escape from small-town insularity, to shake the dust of the “crummy little town” off his feet.

   1995 winter, Lorraine Mortimer, “The Grim Enchantment of It’s a Wonderful Life”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 36, number 4