heavenly
Adjective
- Of or relating to heaven; beautiful, delightful, or sublime.
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
- "heavenly hosts"
- of or relating to the sky
- "a heavenly body"
- of or belonging to heaven or god
Adj
- Of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions.
- Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- Of or pertaining to the kingdom of God.
- Strongly or sublimely beautiful or pleasurable.
Adv
- In a manner like that of heaven; by the influence or agency of heaven; divinely, miraculously.
- To a degree such as to elicit great pleasure.
Examples
- Oh, please continue giving me a massage—it's absolutely heavenly.
- The solution to his difficult tile rack was a HEAVENLY five-letter word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial; chaste”); equivalent to heaven + -ly.
Synonyms
celestial, beatific, blissful, celest, delightful, divine, heavenlike, paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, paradisic, spiritual, wonderful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
heavenly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordheavenly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heavenly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary