paradisiac
See also: paradisíac
English
Etymology
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 948783828:
- 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 1000395324:
- 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
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | paradisiac | paradisiacă | paradisiaci | paradisiace | ||
| definite | paradisiacul | paradisiaca | paradisiacii | paradisiacele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | paradisiac | paradisiace | paradisiaci | paradisiace | ||
| definite | paradisiacului | paradisiacei | paradisiacilor | paradisiacelor | |||
References
- paradisiac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN