heavenly
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈhɛvənli/
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celestial
- In the main, Christians have focused on the heavenly Jerusalem rather than its earthly counterpart.
- heavenly rewards
- heavenly and earthly
- heavenly Father
I guess from the heavenly realms, from the invisible realms.
- I guess from the heavenly realms, from the invisible realms.
- Oh, and your spirit goes up to the Heavenly Father and you see those gates?
- Bottom line is, and what was, I'm telling you, some heavenly intervention.
- The woman though she was, her hand never trembled as she fought for my cause, the cause of chastity with heavenly boldness.
- And Lanny in Hawaiian means heaven and she is my little heavenly baby, straight from heaven, even though she acts like Stitch sometimes.
- So there's some sort of heavenly reward, whether it be a better reincarnation or paradise or avoiding hell or who knows what it's going to be.
- Wow, wow, holy heavenly sing choirs of angels.
- Right when the heavenly power then he says, cast them down and strips off their importance.
- And if you don't know what that is, that's a Greek word for right, for that, which is translated now as heavenly.
Examples
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The street of the heavenly city is "pure gold, as it were transparent glass."
Academic text (1997) -
According to legend, when a heavenly being speaks, men of all countries can understand him.
Fiction book (1990) -
And how may our heavenly father be of service to you, sir?
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From that moment on, the heavenly peace was never quite the same.
Fiction book (1996) -
The box was opened before the eyes of God and all his heavenly host.
Fiction book (1996) -
Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect, said Garrison.
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What Christ, the incarnate God, did in time, God, the heavenly Father, does and must do in eternity.
Academic text (1990) -
Heavenly father, we ask for your blessing and guiding hand today... ...as we send these volunteers down... ...to help the mother of Cody Martin find her child... ...and safely bring him home.
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The view from the mountaintop was so heavenly that it took my breath away.
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The choir's performance was simply heavenly, filling the church with beautiful melodies.
Synonyms
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Having a spiritual quality that feels beyond normal understanding
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Extremely good or beautiful, as if from the gods
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7.0
Appearing like a ghost
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6.9
From heaven or like a god, not of this world
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8.8
Very light and delicate in a way that seems heavenly
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9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
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9.9
Having a beautiful, heavenly look or sound that feels holy
Like the highest part of the sky or heaven
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world
A place that is very beautiful and peaceful, like a quiet beach or garden
Shows the peace and beauty of a perfect garden
A place that is very beautiful and peaceful, like a perfect garden
Antonyms
Idioms
- Archaic
To die peacefully, people say this as a gentle way to talk about someone's death
Compounds
- Literature
A perfect, peaceful place often shown as a beautiful city in religious writing
How Earthly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word heavenly comes from heaven, the old idea of the 'home of the gods' or the divine, with the ending -ly meaning 'of'. That's why 'heavenly' can mean something that belongs to the spiritual or divine world.