paradisal
Definition
- Adjective:
- Of, relating to, or resembling paradise; heavenly, blissfully perfect: Describing something that has the qualities of paradise—supreme beauty, peace, happiness, or delight.
Usage
- The adjective "paradisal" is a formal and literary term. It is used to describe places, states, feelings, or atmospheres that are so wonderfully beautiful, peaceful, or joyful that they seem like paradise.
- It is often used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "be" or "seem").
Examples
- Attributive use (before a noun):
- They spent their honeymoon on a paradisal beach with white sand and turquoise water.
- The garden was a paradisal retreat from the noise of the city.
- Predicative use (after a linking verb):
- The view from the mountain top was absolutely paradisal.
- After the long hardship, the simple peace of home felt paradisal.
Advanced Usage
- "paradisal innocence": A state of pure, uncorrupted, and blissful innocence, as associated with the biblical Garden of Eden.
- The poet wrote of a lost age of paradisal innocence before the fall of man.
Variants and Related Words
- Paradisiacal (adj): A more common variant with the same meaning.
- They enjoyed a paradisiacal vacation on the remote island.
- Paradise (n): The noun from which "paradisal" is derived, meaning a place or state of perfect happiness.
- Heavenly (adj): A more common synonym suggesting divine beauty or bliss.
- Elysian (adj): A literary synonym meaning relating to or characteristic of heaven or paradise.
Synonyms
- Heavenly
- Idyllic
- Utopian
- Blissful
- Edenic
Antonyms
- Hellish
- Dreadful
- Miserable
- Infernal
Adjective
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relating to or befitting Paradise
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together in that paradisal place
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paradisiacal innocence
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