ambrosial

Syllables: am·bro·si·al/amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/US/æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/

ambrosial adjective: pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

Adjective

ambrosial (comparative more ambrosial, superlative most ambrosial)

(Greek) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
- And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Their life is long; they eat
  Ambrosial food, and with the Deathless frame
  The beauteous dance.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 228
Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
- Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]1607 February 12 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Barnabe Barnes], The Divils Charter: A Tragædie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt. […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld]...
- VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125

[T]his young hero, rising from his bed, proceeded to decorate his beautiful person, and shave his ambrosial chin […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVIII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify...
By your cheek of vermil hue, / By your lip’s ambrosial dew, / By your soft and languid eye, / By your swelling bosom’s sigh, / You taught me love.1826, J. S. Byerley, “You Taught Me Love”, in The Universal Songster, Volume 3:

comparative	more ambrosial
superlative	most ambrosial

Partly from ambrosia and partly from Latin ambrosius, + -al.

What does ambrosial mean?: Ambrosial means pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
How do you use ambrosial in a sentence?: [T]his young hero, rising from his bed, proceeded to decorate his beautiful person, and shave his ambrosial chin […]
What part of speech is ambrosial?: Ambrosial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ambrosial?: Ambrosial is pronounced /amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/ (UK).

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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