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

Another tells you that morality, or philosophy, will lift you again to those paradisaical heights that tower high above your straining vision.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

Here is a religious world, idyllic, paradisaical in its immediate relation to the Gods, and in the primitive innocence of its people, who seem to be without a jar or inner scission.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques