Paradisiac

3 definitions found

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

  Paradisiac \Par`a*dis"i*ac\, Paradisiacal \Par`a*di*si"a*cal\,
     a. [L. paradisiacus.]
     Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise;
     paradisaic. --C. Kingsley. --T. Burnet. "A paradisiacal
     scene." --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. --G.
                                                    Eliot.
     [1913 Webster] Paradisial

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  paradisiac
       adj 1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that
              paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiacal},
               {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal}]
       2: resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a
          paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial
          isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness" [syn: {elysian},
           {paradisiacal}, {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal},
           {paradisial}]

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

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "paradisiac":
     Elysian, Olympian, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful,
     celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, extramundane,
     extraterrestrial, from on high, glorified, heavenly, in glory,
     otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisial, paradisian,
     paradisic, saintly, sublime, supernal, transcendental,
     transmundane, unearthly, unworldly