heavenly
heavenly
Definition
heav·enly (hev′ən lē)
adjective
- celestial (sense )
- causing or marked by great happiness, beauty, peace, etc.
- Informal very attractive, pleasing, etc.
- Theol. of or in heaven; holy; divine
Etymology: ME hevenlich < OE heofonlic
heav′·en·li·ness noun
heavenly
Synonyms
heavenly
modif.
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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.
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.
Browse dictionary entries near heavenly
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- Heaviside layer
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- heavy carrier
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