heav'nly

Adjective

heavenly (comparative heavenlier or more heavenly, superlative heavenliest or most heavenly)

1. Of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods.
   • Heavenly Father, I come to You as Your child, kicking and screaming.

   Synonyms:

   celestial, celest, otherworldly, ethereal, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, transcendental, sublime, spiritual

   Antonyms:

   earthly, worldly, worldy, terrestrial, material, mundane, sublunar, sublunary, profane, temporal

2. Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
   • The other heavenly bodies are primarily controlled by the attractive force of the Sun.

   Synonyms:

   celestial

3. (figuratively) Strongly or sublimely good, beautiful, or pleasurable.
   • Oh, that's absolutely heavenly. Gimme some more.

   Synonyms:

   paradisal, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisic, acceptable, agreeable, all right, amazing, as fine as Dick's hatband, awesome

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