Heavenly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\, adv.
     1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly
        true." --Shak.
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     2. By the influence or agency of heaven.


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              Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\ (h[e^]v"'n*l[y^]), a. [AS. heofonic.]
     1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven;
        celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly
        music.
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              As is the heavenly, such are they also that are
              heavenly.                             --1 Cor. xv.
                                                    48.
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     2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect;
        pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the
        heavenly, throng.
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              The love of heaven makes one heavenly. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heavenly
       adj 1: relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial
              beings"; "heavenly hosts" [syn: {celestial}]
       2: of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly
          body" [syn: {celestial}]
       3: of or belonging to heaven or god [ant: {earthly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  193 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavenly":
     Arcadian, Christlike, Christly, Cynthian, Edenic, Elysian,
     God-fearing, Olympian, adorable, ambrosial, anagalactic, angelic,
     archangelic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic,
     astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, awesome, awful, beaming,
     beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blooming, bright,
     brilliant, canonized, celestial, cherubic, circumplanetary,
     cislunar, darling, dazzling, delectable, delicious, delightful,
     devastating, divine, empyreal, empyrean, entrancing, equinoctial,
     ethereal, excellent, exquisite, extragalactic, extramundane,
     extraterrestrial, fantastic, from on high, galactic, gilt-edged,
     glamorous, glorified, glorious, glowing, godlike, godly,
     godly-minded, golden, good, gorgeous, great, heliacal, holy,
     holy-minded, ideal, idealized, immense, immortal, in glory,
     incarnate, incarnated, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible,
     intercessional, intercessive, intercosmic, interplanetary,
     intersidereal, interstellar, inviolable, inviolate, killing, lunar,
     lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, luscious, lush, made flesh,
     magnificent, martyred, marvelous, mediative, mediatory, meteoric,
     meteoritic, millennial, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, numinous,
     otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisial,
     paradisian, paradisic, perfect, planetal, planetarian, planetary,
     planetesimal, propitiative, propitiatory, pure, pure in heart,
     purehearted, radiant, rapturous, raving, ravishing, redeemed,
     redemptive, religious, resplendent, righteous, sacred, sacrosanct,
     sainted, saintlike, saintly, salvational, saved, scrumptious,
     self-existent, semilunar, sensational, seraphic, shining, sidereal,
     smashing, solar, sparkling, sphery, spiritual, spiritual-minded,
     splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, star-spangled,
     star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, sterling, stunning,
     sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine,
     superhuman, supernal, supernatural, terrestrial, terrific,
     transcendent, transcendental, transmundane, tremendous,
     ultramundane, unearthly, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable,
     unworldly, uranic, utopian, venerable, wonderful, yummy,
     zodiacal