heavenly
adj. · adv.-
1 religious/divine (adj.) B1 Intermediate Religionrelated to heaven or God in a religious way.
pertaining to the dwelling place of the divine or the kingdom of God in a theological context.
ExampleThe choir sang about heavenly peace during the holiday service.
ExampleThe fresco depicts a heavenly host of angels surrounding the central figure, rendered in vibrant gold leaf to suggest divine radiance.
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2 wonderful/beautiful (adj.) B1 Intermediateextremely pleasant, beautiful, or delicious.
sublimely beautiful, pleasurable, or excellent; used as an intensive evaluative adjective.
ExampleThis chocolate cake is absolutely heavenly.
ExampleAfter a week of hiking in the rain, the warm bath and clean sheets felt truly heavenly.
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3 astronomical (adj.) B2 Upper Intermediate Literary Sciencerelated to the sky, stars, or planets.
relating to the physical heavens or the sky as an astronomical realm.
ExampleThe telescope allows us to see heavenly bodies like distant planets.
ExampleAncient navigators relied on the movement of heavenly bodies to determine their position across the open sea.
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4 divinely (adv.) C2 Proficiency Literary Archaicin a way that seems like it comes from heaven or God.
in a manner suggesting divine influence or origin.
ExampleThe music sounded heavenly sweet in the quiet night.
ExampleThe poet described a landscape heavenly blessed by the morning light, untouched by the industrial smoke of the city.
From Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial; chaste”); equivalent to heaven + -ly.