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paradisiacal

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /pæɹədɪˈsaɪəkəl/
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  • rhymes with -aɪəkəl

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of or resembling paradise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paradisiac

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: Edenic

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

relating to or befitting Paradise

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • together in that paradisal place
  • paradisiacal innocence

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paradisiac, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisal

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin paradīsiacus + -al.

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: فِرْدَوْسِيّ (firdawsiyy) — resembling paradise
  • Belarusian: ра́йскі (rájski) — resembling paradise
  • Bulgarian: ра́йски (rájski) — resembling paradise
  • Catalan: paradisíac — resembling paradise
  • Czech: rajský — resembling paradise
  • Danish: paradisisk — resembling paradise
  • Dutch: paradijselijk — resembling paradise
  • Esperanto: paradiza — resembling paradise
  • Estonian: paradiislik — resembling paradise
  • Fijian: vakaparataisi — resembling paradise
  • Finnish: paratiisillinen — resembling paradise
  • Finnish: paratiisimainen — resembling paradise
  • French: paradisiaque — resembling paradise
  • German: paradiesisch — resembling paradise
  • Hungarian: paradicsomi — resembling paradise
  • Indonesian: bersifat sorga — resembling paradise
  • Italian: paradisiaco — resembling paradise
  • Macedonian: рајски (rajski) — resembling paradise
  • Norwegian Bokmål: paradisisk — resembling paradise
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: paradisisk — resembling paradise
  • Polish: rajski — resembling paradise
  • Portuguese: paradisíaco — resembling paradise
  • Romanian: paradiziac — resembling paradise
  • Russian: ра́йский (rájskij) — resembling paradise
  • Samoan: faaparataiso — resembling paradise
  • Serbo-Croatian: ра̑јскӣ — resembling paradise
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȃjskī — resembling paradise
  • Slovak: rajský — resembling paradise
  • Slovene: rajski — resembling paradise
  • Spanish: paradisíaco — resembling paradise
  • Spanish: paradisiaco — resembling paradise
  • Swedish: paradisisk — resembling paradise
  • Tongan: fakapalataisi — resembling paradise
  • Ukrainian: ра́йський (rájsʹkyj) — resembling paradise