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Paradisaical

Paradisaic \Par`a*di*sa"ic\, Paradisaical \Par`a*di*sa"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness. ``Paradisaical pleasures.''
--Gray.

Syn: paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaic, paradisal, elysian, paradisial.

2. Causing happinesss.

Wiktionary
paradisaical

a. Of or relating to paradise (or heaven).

WordNet
paradisaical
  1. adj. relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: paradisiacal, paradisiac, 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, paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisial]

Usage examples of "paradisaical".

I, your author, ventured from the fertile climes of our glorious state in the forty-third year of this century to perform my duties as an American in the South Pacific, and will carry to my grave the scenes of cruelty and human degradation I witnessed there, in surroundings as paradisaical as any this globe can offer.

He really did know human nature, and he never dreamt of anything more paradisaical than a Sunday Pullman escapade to Brighton.

Whether Shangri-la, or Utopia, Paradisaical Eden or the Elysian Fields, whether The Red-path of Nominative Hyperbole or The Last and Most Porous Membrane of Cathexian Belief, there was a valley, a greensward, a hill or summit, a body of water or a field of grain whence it all came.

Readers who have visited Italy will be reminded of more than one picture by this gorgeous Vision of Beauty, equally sublime and pure in its Paradisaical naturalness.

I have no paradisaical evening interviews, stolen from the restless cares and prying inhabitants of this weary world.

Sterne was not living in a Paradisaical age, and he intentionally overstept the boundaries of decorum.

From the violent paradisaical dreams he remembered, and the heavy, throttled sense of incipient pain, he knew that the taper fumes had been used to keep him asleep.

However, to end the week-long series, the cameras did a slow flyover of paradisaical islands in the balmy south seas of Beauty, empty and inviting, of the lush, green plains devoid of life, of tree-green, temperate zones.

The representatives of this Paradise were then in possession of a critique of culture, they believed, that gave them immense power in condemnatory rhetoric for all things modern, or rather, all things past the chosen paradisaical epoch.