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 • Apr. 26, 2012

Quadruple the footprint, pad the seats, replace The Time Traveller's sodding Wife with a microwave, and it becomes the bibliophile's paradisaical starter home.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2010

From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

We entered the inn, homely as it was, quite certain that any transition must be paradisaical, compared with our late hopeless condition.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

I have no paradisaical evening interviews, stolen from the restless cares and prying inhabitants of this weary world.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert