paradisiac

See also: paradisíac

English

Etymology

From Latin paradīsiacus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈdɪziæk/
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Adjective

paradisiac (comparative more paradisiac, superlative most paradisiac)

Of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful.
Synonym: paradisiacal

Hyponym: Edenic
- 1692, Thomas Burnet, Archæologiæ Philosophicæ:
  the Paradisiac - State of Infant Nature
- September 13, 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Mrs Blount
  a paradisiacal scene
- 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
  Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiac vision which only impelled them
- 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  the paradisiac beauty and simplicity of tropic humanity

Translations

of or like Paradise — see paradisiacal

Anagrams

paradisaic

Romanian

Adjective

paradisiac m or n (feminine singular paradisiacă, masculine plural paradisiaci, feminine and neuter plural paradisiace)

obsolete form of paradiziac

Declension

Declension of *paradisiac*
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
		singular				plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	paradisiac		paradisiacă		paradisiaci	paradisiace
nominative- accusative	definite	paradisiacul		paradisiaca		paradisiacii	paradisiacele
genitive- dative	indefinite	paradisiac		paradisiace		paradisiaci	paradisiace
genitive- dative	definite	paradisiacului		paradisiacei		paradisiacilor	paradisiacelor

References

paradisiac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN