HEAVEN-SENT Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

heaven-sent

adjective

ˈhe-vən-ˌsent

as in lucky

coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly a heaven-sent offer to be the all-expenses-paid chaperone to some students on a trip to Paris

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Recent Examples of heaven-sent The Finals matchup is heaven-sent for the NBA: New York, the center of everything, playing for its first league championship since 1973 and with a huge chance, up 2-0 in the best-of-7. —

Miami Herald, 8 June 2026 Northern Italy’s seductively beautiful Lakes District – in the shadow of the Alps – seems heaven-sent for communing with nature. —

Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2026 Fallen Angels' Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are heaven-sent in this divine and delirious revival of Noël Coward’s sneakily groundbreaking 1925 play, about a pair of high-society housewives who hatch a plot to hook up with their former lover (Mark Consuelos). —

Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 May 2026 Psychedelics — medically dynamic and relatively easy to procure and process for clinical use — look heaven-sent in their potential to address persistent health disparities like these. —

Jerel Ezell, STAT, 1 May 2026 We all heaven-sent / Epstein too. —

Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026 And peer mentors are heaven-sent. —

Raynee Howell, Oklahoma Watch, 9 Feb. 2026 So when my editor asked me to cover the SOUL Wellness Retreat in Los Cabos, the opportunity seemed heaven-sent. —

Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025 Long wearing makeup is a heaven-sent during white hot summers, especially when they are formulated with skin loving ingredients. —

Bianca Salonga, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025

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But a director hired to helm a pilot, as James Burrows, who died Friday at 85, was again and again — almost as a lucky charm — helps set the tone for the series.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Every independent filmmaker should be so lucky.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 19 June 2026