angelic

adjective

an·​gel·​ic an-ˈje-lik 

variants or less commonly angelical

an-ˈje-li-kəl 

: 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

angelically

an-ˈje-li-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

smiling angelically

And, oh, how good we were! How angelically and unnaturally good!

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Examples of angelic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell. —Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026

The disparate components are bound by hefty percussion hits and an angelic vocal sample that sounds like trying to remember a distant memory. —Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026

He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style. —Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2026

And her co-stars—Jacob Elordi as a brooding Heathcliff, Alison Oliver as an angelic Isabella Linton, Hong Chau as a steely Nelly Dean, and Shazad Latif as a swaggering Edgar Linton—would also be subverting our expectations. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for angelic

• allelic
• philatelic
• psychedelic
• relic
• telic