heavenly

[hev-uhn-lee]

adjective

1. of or in the heavens.

   the heavenly bodies.

2. of, belonging to, or coming from the heaven of God, the angels, etc.

3. resembling or befitting heaven; blissful; beautiful.

   His home in Tahiti was a heavenly spot.

4. divine or celestial.

   heavenly peace.

   Synonyms: beatific, blessed, angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sublime, supernal
   Antonyms: hellish, infernal

heavenly

/ ˈhɛvənlɪ /

adjective

1. informal,  alluring, wonderful, or sublime

2. of or occurring in space

   a heavenly body

3. divine; holy

Other Word Forms

• heavenliness noun
• unheavenly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of heavenly¹

before 1000; Middle English hevenly, Old English heofonlīc. See heaven, -ly

Example Sentences

She’s support-staffed enough of other people’s stories these last few years; somebody please give this world-class actor her own heavenly leading role.

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So each day we face the heavenly orb in the sky and pray, asking Ra to continue giving us the gift of life on earth.

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An infant who did not receive many funerary flowers is thus portrayed beneath a dramatic assembly of angels and other heavenly guardians.

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"You now have slice concepts, London pizza, new haven, sourdough, Neapolitan, Detroit - it's a heavenly minefield for a pizza-loving consumer to explore."

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The heavenly finger’s subtle specter of warped Christianity gets emphatic in a 1917 pietà designed by J. Maxwell Miller to celebrate Confederate women in Maryland.

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Related Words

• angelic 
• blissful 
• celestial 
• delectable 
• delicious 
• divine 
• glorious 
• holy 
• lovely 
• luscious 
• ravishing 
• sublime 
• supernatural 
• wonderful