paradisiacal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   idyllically beautiful, peaceful, or pleasurable

   They spent a week beside a paradisiacal lagoon ringed with palms.

2. 2
   adj

   of, resembling, or considered worthy of paradise

   The poet imagined a paradisiacal garden untouched by suffering.

A learned formation from Late Latin paradisiacus, 'of paradise,' + -al. Paradise came through Greek paradeisos from an Old Iranian word for a walled enclosure or park. The religious image of a perfect garden broadened naturally into the modern description of an idyllic place or experience.

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