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paradise

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of paradise

1 an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness

  • an idealist who trotted the globe looking for paradise
Synonyms of paradise

Camelot, Cockaigne, Eden, Elysium, empyrean, fantasyland, heaven, lotusland, never-never land, New Jerusalem, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la, utopia, Zion (also Sion)
Words Related to paradise

arcadia

dreamland, dreamworld, fairyland, wonderland

blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, euphoria, gladness, joy
Phrases Synonymous with paradise

Garden of Eden
Near Antonyms of paradise

fool's paradise
Antonyms of paradise

anti-utopia, dystopia, hell

2 a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death

  • a firm belief that good people will be rewarded in paradise
Synonyms of paradise

above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, sky, Zion (also Sion)
Words Related to paradise

Beulah, glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla

afterlife, afterworld, hereafter, otherworld
Phrases Synonymous with paradise

on high
Near Antonyms of paradise

inferno

limbo, purgatory

hades, netherworld, underworld

abyss, pit
Antonyms of paradise

Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium, perdition

3 a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion

  • that early stage of a romance when lovers are in paradise
Synonyms of paradise

cloud nine, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, heaven, high, intoxication, rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, swoon, transport
Words Related to paradise

exaltation

blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, delight, enchantment, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, pleasure

reverie, trance

inspiration

fervor, frenzy, madness, passion

cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness
Near Antonyms of paradise

misery, sadness, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness

blues, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, melancholy, mopes
Antonyms of paradise

depression

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