Synonyms for heavenly
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Divine — of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods
divine, supernal, celestial, ethereal, angelic, holy, god-like, blessed, godly, eternal, spiritual, other-worldly, sacred, transcendental, saintly, etheric US, aetheric UK, hallowed, sainted, sacrosanct, elysian, empyrean, seraphic
2. Sublime — strongly or sublimely good, beautiful, or pleasurable
sublime, blissful, delightful, glorious, beatific, perfect, wonderful, marvelous US, marvellous UK, paradisiacal, great, gurt UK, ambrosial, magnificent, good, golden, exquisite, awesome informal, fantastic, super, splendid, ravishing, rapturous, stunning
Definitions
- adj. 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.
- adj. 2
Strongly or sublimely good, beautiful, or pleasurable.
Oh, that's absolutely heavenly. Gimme some more.
Related words
- Word family
- heavenly-minded
- Phrases
- heavenly body heavenly bamboo heavenly marriage heavenly stem heavenly virtues
- Other spellings
- heav'nly
Example sentences
- divine His pneumonia was cured through a divine miracle.
- celestial Astronomers use Latin for naming celestial objects.
- ethereal The voice sounded very weird, almost ethereal.
- sublime This chocolate cake isn't just great, it's sublime.
- blissful Gabor and Martha had a totally blissful relationship.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, holy2, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, super2, godly2, skyly
- 6 letters
- golden2, divine2, sacred2
- 7 letters
- perfect2, awesome2, blessed1, eternal3, sublime2, angelic3, saintly2, elysian, sainted2, etheric
- 8 letters
- stunning2, glorious3, splendid2, ethereal4, hallowed2, blissful2, sidereal, empyrean, beatific, seraphic, supernal, aetheric
- 9 letters
- wonderful3, fantastic3, spiritual4, exquisite3, celestial3, marvelous3, glorified3, ravishing3, rapturous3, beatified4, ambrosial3
- 10 letters
- delightful3, marvellous3, sacrosanct3
- 11 letters
- magnificent4
- 12 letters
- paradisiacal
- 14 letters
- transcendental4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- supraterrestre