paradisaical
Americanadjective
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
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