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Synonyms

paradisaical

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

adjective

  1. paradisiacal.


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

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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

How seldom it is that a mortal is permitted to enjoy a paradisaical scene, unhaunted by some painful vision from the past or the future!

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

Rejoice in your unclouded, paradisaical, peaceful life in the beautiful South; and write to me soon, dearest, beautifullest, happiest, only sister mine!

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul