paradisaical
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- paradisaically adverb
Etymology
Origin of paradisaical
1615–25; paradise + -aic (suffix abstracted from words like prosaic, algebraic, etc.) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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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 • Apr. 26, 2012
Quadruple the footprint, pad the seats, replace The Time Traveller's sodding Wife with a microwave, and it becomes the bibliophile's paradisaical starter home.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2010
From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is in it an allusion to the planting of paradise; God now prepares for himself a new paradisaical plantation, consisting of living trees.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
They had a grand time, and the grander the time they had the keener was the delight of Mr. Alpha in their paradisaical existence.
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold
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