paradisaical

[ par-uh-di-sey-i-kuhl, -zey-, -dahy- ]

adjective

1. paradisiacal.

Other Words From

• par·a·di·sa·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of paradisaical¹

1615–25; paradise + -aic (suffix abstracted from words like prosaic, algebraic, etc.) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

But in the paradisaical world of “Sex Education”, which debuted to great success in 2019 and is coming to an end Thursday with its final season airing on Netflix, shame is almost nonexistent.

From Los Angeles Times

When Queen Elizabeth’s yacht, Britannia, steamed to the Maldives’ main island, Male, in 1972, she was the first head of any state to visit the paradisaical speck of Britain’s Commonwealth.

From New York Times

All that was tangled in life straightened out before them, the future seemed a sort of paradisaical boulevard.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed to her as though she, a pious and glad pilgrim, were making her way along paradisaical oases towards those distant scenes, there to find even more, the goal....

From Project Gutenberg

And what system of selection operates in the Department whereby this officer or that is chosen from among all his brethren for the paradisaical job of being beau of a fashionable crossing?

From Project Gutenberg