paradisaical

American  

[par-uh-di-sey-i-kuhl, -zey-, -dahy-] / ˌpær ə dɪˈseɪ ɪ kəl, -ˈzeɪ-, -daɪ- /

Also paradisaic

adjective

1. paradisiacal.

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Other Word Forms

• paradisaically adverb

Etymology

Origin of paradisaical

1615–25; paradise + -aic (suffix abstracted from words like prosaic, algebraic, etc.) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

When Queen Elizabeth’s yacht, Britannia, steamed to the Maldives’ main island, Male, in 1972, she was the first head of any state to visit the paradisaical speck of Britain’s Commonwealth.

From New York Times

All that was tangled in life straightened out before them, the future seemed a sort of paradisaical boulevard.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed to her as though she, a pious and glad pilgrim, were making her way along paradisaical oases towards those distant scenes, there to find even more, the goal....

From Project Gutenberg

And what system of selection operates in the Department whereby this officer or that is chosen from among all his brethren for the paradisaical job of being beau of a fashionable crossing?

From Project Gutenberg

It is only you who are sufficiently free from other obligations, to give yourselves the privilege and luxury of working with God, on the paradisaical ground of childhood, who should enter this field.

From Project Gutenberg