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heavenly Definition

heav·enly (hevən lē)

adjective

  1. celestial (sense )
    1. causing or marked by great happiness, beauty, peace, etc.
    2. Informal very attractive, pleasing, etc.
  2. Theol. of or in heaven; holy; divine

Etymology: ME hevenlich < OE heofonlic

heavenly Related Forms
heav·en·li·ness noun
heavenly Synonyms

heavenly

modif.

  1. Concerning heaven

    paradisiacal, celestial, supernal; see angelic, divine 1, holy 1.

  2. *Much approved of or liked

    blissful, sweet, enjoyable; see excellent, pleasant 1, 2.

heavenly Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • equally: The new birth and the atonement are alike and equally heavenly thoughts, heavenly plans and purposes.
  • truly: It was truly heavenly - I kept going back.
  • so: I have seen many dying; but none whose face wore an air so heavenly.
  • too: How can heavenly things be too heavenly, or earthly things too earthly?
  • just: Girls have all been all over him all weekend Today has been just heavenly.
  • not: Some of us have our moorings tied and our foundations dug deep, and our desires are not heavenly.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: The more heavenly the employment, the more it will make the spirit heavenly.

Modifies a noun

  • realm: He is the Pol Pot of the heavenly realms.
  • splendor: Lord enthroned in heavenly splendor, First begotten from the dead 42.
  • kingdom: Shaker life was modeled on the vision of a heavenly kingdom in which " true gospel simplicity " was the cardinal principle.. .
  • glory: Seeing God face to face, we will literally be engulfed in His heavenly glory.
  • ki: In fact, earth ki and heavenly ki are what we are: we are physical reality and we are spiritual essence.
  • abode: Here is a primitive description of the sun god sitting on his throne in his heavenly abode.

Used with adjective complement

  • smell: It means you can run your hands through the bushes when you walk by and it smells just heavenly.
  • taste: Garnish with a drizzle of olive oil and a few shredded fresh basil leaves and you have something which tastes heavenly!
  • sound: If it sounds heavenly, let me be a virtual devil's advocate.
  • look: Under plant them with crocus and daffodils and they look quite heavenly.
  • call: No wonder it's called heavenly, ' Penny enthuses.
heavenly Quotes

Swinburne is just emptiness to me as he gets older, and themoremaddening ashegoes onexploiting a heavenly gift. I wish he had just shut up, like Coleridge, and left us surmising wonders.

—Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'

Heavenly weather. If life was always like that.Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades.Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Still,Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius