paradisaical
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of paradisaical
1615–25; paradise + -aic (suffix abstracted from words like prosaic, algebraic, etc.) + -al 1
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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
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 Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Louis Couperus
And now he was ravished, rapt away on the wings of paradisaical ecstasy by a something that consisted of kidney and a few eggs.
From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett
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