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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paradisiacal

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; paradisaic.
--C. Kingsley.
--T. Burnet. ``A paradisiacal scene.''
--Pope.

The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty.
--G. Eliot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paradisiacal

1630s, from Latin paradisiacus (from Greek paradeisiakos, from paradeisos; see paradise) + -al (1). Other adjective forms include paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, paradisean, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, paradisical.

Wiktionary
paradisiacal

a. Of or resembling paradise.

WordNet
paradisiacal

  1. adj. 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]

Usage examples of "paradisiacal".

Even that wild, defiant period of half-forced gaiety, which had ended in my toboggan accident, then seemed in my memory to be beautiful and colored in a paradisiacal way, like a lost land of pleasure, the echo of which still came across to me with bacchanal intoxication from the distance.

The Botanic Gardens of Corstorphine seemed to Ted a paradisiacal version of the cemetery back home.