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单词 angelic
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Definition of angelic in English:

angelic

adjectiveanˈdʒɛlɪkænˈdʒɛlɪk
  • 1Relating to angels.

    the angelic hosts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
    • A tale with a bit of angelic intervention that overcame obstacles and touched the heart.
    • In some quarters, the dove is considered to possess angelic qualities.
    • He had forgotten to tell Raven that the seven angelic souls were inevitably bounded to Talos Darkwind.
    • The angelic figure before her looked like her, but she was wearing white garments instead.
    • A quick google reveals that he is a spiritual medium, the gleaming white raiment possibly implying a familiarity with the angelic host.
    • Until we're serenaded by the angelic chorus, Krauss is as close to a heavenly voice as it gets.
    • Musically, angelic guidance has rearranged priorities and sharpened his ear.
    • There're also depictions of what can only be described as angelic figures.
    • Cerri and her angelic companion didn't so much as flinch as the leader stood to the side reveling a swordsman.
    • But, no there was no bright light or angelic figures beckoning me over either.
    • I have now finished the first complete draft of my novella (cue angelic trumpets, hallelujahs etc).
    • He opened his eyes slightly and looked up to see a masked angelic figure holding him.
    • A perfect Christmas morning record with its angelic singing and gentle melancholy hymns.
    • One held the world and all its people and all its furniture and all the angelic choirs to be dreams in the mind of God.
    • The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
    • This tale that I tell is dedicated to him, the angelic owner of my immortal soul.
    • Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.
    • Sauntering along, the boy looks up and sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.
    • I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.
    Synonyms
    divine, heavenly, celestial, holy
    seraphic, cherubic, ethereal, spiritual
    rare empyrean
    1. 1.1 (of a person) exceptionally beautiful, innocent, or kind.
      she looks remarkably young and angelic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The pudding-bowl haircut he used to sport gave an impression of angelic innocence that convinced nobody.
      • To those passing by, she looked angelic, she looked to be about the most beautiful girl they had ever seen.
      • As it faded the features of beautiful, almost angelic woman started to become clear.
      • He is accompanied by his very pretty soft-spoken wife and their two angelic daughters.
      • I gave her an unconvinced look, which she returned with a look of angelic innocence.
      • Thankfully, according to Corinne, keeping flexible also doesn't mean following a painfully angelic diet.
      • Choirgirls, it seems, really are every bit as angelic as choirboys.
      • He looks such an angelic lad but he's really uncontrollable and takes great pleasure in anti-social behaviour.
      • By the time we were eighteen, the angelic girl I met in kindergarten was long gone.
      • She was so caring, so beautiful and angelic that I fell in love with her and proposed within a month.
      • The cutely dressed children may look angelic, but they're definitely kids of the modern age.
      • Lisa Hannigan's angelic voice only helps to solidify this song as one of the most pleasing songs on the album.
      • Amy Linton's angelic voice still sounds as sweet as ever, but a crumb of sinister darkness has been added.
      • He's a little devil for her, but angelic for everyone else he meets.
      • Boo has been far from angelic recently and the thought of taking him to a crowded football stadium was just too much.
      • There is the perfect house, the perfect husband, played by Dennis Quaid, angelic kids and a caring circle of friends.
      • She is not portrayed as angelic but as a believably good-natured and optimistic adolescent.
      • He didn't look angelic or any of the other words people use when describing people sleeping.
      • "When you look at them they look quite angelic but the amount of violence used was terrible.
      • He had a beautiful young wife, three angelic children and a cat.
      Synonyms
      innocent, pure, as pure as the driven snow, virtuous, good, saintly, wholesome, exemplary
      beautiful, adorable, lovely, lovable, enchanting
      informal adorbs

Derivatives

  • angelical

  • adjectiveanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lænˈdʒɛlək(ə)l
    • This, too, goes beyond my experience and my understanding of the ontological scale as consisting essentially of mineral, plant, animal, human, angelical, and divine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Borges rejects ‘words that postulate intuitive or angelical insights’, while, for his part, Proust ‘elevates his lack of knowledge to the level of universal truth and imposes it by maxim’.
      • He said, ‘That may well be; for their look is angelical, and also it is fit that they should be joint-heirs with the angels in heaven.’
      • Precisely because women were considered more likely to succumb to Satan's temptations, they were thought less likely to be the direct or particular beneficiaries of angelical apparitions.
      • The demon's eyes seemed to narrow intensely as they fixated their dark depths on the shimmering, angelical woman kneeling in the shallow water of the pond.
  • angelically

  • adverbanˈdʒɛlɪkliænˈdʒɛlək(ə)li
    • But they're ordinary little boys: reading angelically one moment, kicking seven bells out of each other the next.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sylvia smiled angelically and said, ‘Alright, Daddy.’
      • Periodically he would leave the stage and would be replaced by a young Italian soprano called Maria Borsi, who also sang angelically.
      • At first he pretended to be angry, but we just kept grinning angelically at him and eventually he started laughing and sat down to eat cheese and biscuits with us.
      • Not all God's angels acted angelically, however.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French angélique, via late Latin from Greek angelikos, from angelos (see angel).

Rhymes

archangelic, evangelic, melic, melick, philatelic, psychedelic, relic
 
 

Definition of angelic in US English:

angelic

adjectiveanˈjelikænˈdʒɛlɪk
  • 1Relating to angels.

    the angelic hosts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In some quarters, the dove is considered to possess angelic qualities.
    • He had forgotten to tell Raven that the seven angelic souls were inevitably bounded to Talos Darkwind.
    • There're also depictions of what can only be described as angelic figures.
    • A perfect Christmas morning record with its angelic singing and gentle melancholy hymns.
    • Until we're serenaded by the angelic chorus, Krauss is as close to a heavenly voice as it gets.
    • The angelic figure before her looked like her, but she was wearing white garments instead.
    • One held the world and all its people and all its furniture and all the angelic choirs to be dreams in the mind of God.
    • Musically, angelic guidance has rearranged priorities and sharpened his ear.
    • The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
    • Cerri and her angelic companion didn't so much as flinch as the leader stood to the side reveling a swordsman.
    • I have now finished the first complete draft of my novella (cue angelic trumpets, hallelujahs etc).
    • He opened his eyes slightly and looked up to see a masked angelic figure holding him.
    • A quick google reveals that he is a spiritual medium, the gleaming white raiment possibly implying a familiarity with the angelic host.
    • I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.
    • But, no there was no bright light or angelic figures beckoning me over either.
    • Sauntering along, the boy looks up and sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.
    • The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
    • Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.
    • This tale that I tell is dedicated to him, the angelic owner of my immortal soul.
    • A tale with a bit of angelic intervention that overcame obstacles and touched the heart.
    Synonyms
    divine, heavenly, celestial, holy
    1. 1.1 (of a person) exceptionally beautiful, innocent, or kind.
      she looks remarkably young and angelic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He looks such an angelic lad but he's really uncontrollable and takes great pleasure in anti-social behaviour.
      • Choirgirls, it seems, really are every bit as angelic as choirboys.
      • He is accompanied by his very pretty soft-spoken wife and their two angelic daughters.
      • The cutely dressed children may look angelic, but they're definitely kids of the modern age.
      • As it faded the features of beautiful, almost angelic woman started to become clear.
      • There is the perfect house, the perfect husband, played by Dennis Quaid, angelic kids and a caring circle of friends.
      • By the time we were eighteen, the angelic girl I met in kindergarten was long gone.
      • He's a little devil for her, but angelic for everyone else he meets.
      • Boo has been far from angelic recently and the thought of taking him to a crowded football stadium was just too much.
      • Thankfully, according to Corinne, keeping flexible also doesn't mean following a painfully angelic diet.
      • Amy Linton's angelic voice still sounds as sweet as ever, but a crumb of sinister darkness has been added.
      • I gave her an unconvinced look, which she returned with a look of angelic innocence.
      • Lisa Hannigan's angelic voice only helps to solidify this song as one of the most pleasing songs on the album.
      • To those passing by, she looked angelic, she looked to be about the most beautiful girl they had ever seen.
      • He didn't look angelic or any of the other words people use when describing people sleeping.
      • The pudding-bowl haircut he used to sport gave an impression of angelic innocence that convinced nobody.
      • She was so caring, so beautiful and angelic that I fell in love with her and proposed within a month.
      • He had a beautiful young wife, three angelic children and a cat.
      • She is not portrayed as angelic but as a believably good-natured and optimistic adolescent.
      • "When you look at them they look quite angelic but the amount of violence used was terrible.
      Synonyms
      innocent, pure, as pure as the driven snow, virtuous, good, saintly, wholesome, exemplary

Origin

Late Middle English: from French angélique, via late Latin from Greek angelikos, from angelos (see angel).

 
 
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