SINCE 1828
angelic
adjective
an·gel·ic
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variants:
or less commonly angelical \ an-ˈje-li-kəl
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Definition of angelic
: of or relating to angels
angelic forms For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures …— James Joyce
: resembling, or suggestive of, an angel (as in purity, holiness, innocence, or beauty)
a sweet, angelic child an angelic voice/smile When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?— William Makepeace Thackeray At 12, Westenra was busking on the streets of Christchurch, singing arias and Bee Gees tunes in an angelic soprano …— Joan Anderman
Other Words from angelic
angelically
\ an-ˈje-li-k(ə-)lē
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adverb
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adverb
smiling angelically
And, oh, how good we were! How angelically and unnaturally good!
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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