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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\ (h[e^]v"'n*l[y^]), adjective [AS. heofonic.]
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. --1 Cor. xv. 48.
2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. --Sir P. Sidney.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heavenly \Heav"en*ly\, adverb
1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. ''She was heavenly true.'' --Shak.
2. By the influence or agency of heaven.
Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heavenly
adjective
1: relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts" [syn: {celestial}]
2: of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly body" [syn: {celestial}]
3: of or belonging to heaven or god [ant: {earthly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
193 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavenly": Arcadian, Christlike, Christly, Cynthian, Edenic, Elysian, God-fearing, Olympian, adorable, ambrosial, anagalactic, angelic, archangelic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, awesome, awful, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blooming, bright, brilliant, canonized, celestial, cherubic, circumplanetary, cislunar, darling, dazzling, delectable, delicious, delightful, devastating, divine, empyreal, empyrean, entrancing, equinoctial, ethereal, excellent, exquisite, extragalactic, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, from on high, galactic, gilt-edged, glamorous, glorified, glorious, glowing, godlike, godly, godly-minded, golden, good, gorgeous, great, heliacal, holy, holy-minded, ideal, idealized, immense, immortal, in glory, incarnate, incarnated, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, intercessional, intercessive, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, inviolable, inviolate, killing, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, luscious, lush, made flesh, magnificent, martyred, marvelous, mediative, mediatory, meteoric, meteoritic, millennial, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, numinous, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, perfect, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, propitiative, propitiatory, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, radiant, rapturous, raving, ravishing, redeemed, redemptive, religious, resplendent, righteous, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, saintlike, saintly, salvational, saved, scrumptious, self-existent, semilunar, sensational, seraphic, shining, sidereal, smashing, solar, sparkling, sphery, spiritual, spiritual-minded, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, sterling, stunning, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superhuman, supernal, supernatural, terrestrial, terrific, transcendent, transcendental, transmundane, tremendous, ultramundane, unearthly, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, unworldly, uranic, utopian, venerable, wonderful, yummy, zodiacal
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