celestial
adjective
pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in
uncelestial
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a word derived from
celestial.
Example Sentences
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But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has an uncelestial scent, The clothing of this mendicant;" He cried, "That trickling down my spine Is anything but hyaline.
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott
And then, the big star of stars being once hers, she had, not in the lover kind alone, but in all uncelestial kinds, whole nebulae and milky-ways of small stars.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
What enabled him to see it so clearly was his familiarity with the ways of men and the uncelestial politics of Florence.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
Man walks, then, not only in a vain show, but wrapped in an uncelestial aureole of his own material exhalations.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
