Hypertext Webster Gateway: "paradisiacal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Paradisiac \Par`a*dis"i*ac\, Paradisiacal \Par`a*di*si"a*cal\,
a. [L. paradisiacus.]
Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise.
--C. Kingsley. --T. Burnet. ``A paradisiacal scene.'' --Pope.
The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. --G.
Eliot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
paradisiacal
adj 1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that
paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiac},
{paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal}]
2: resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a
paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial
isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness" [syn: {elysian},
{paradisiac}, {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal},
{paradisial}]
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