heavenly

B1 · Intermediate

adj. extremely pleasant, beautiful, or delicious.

adj. sublimely beautiful, pleasurable, or excellent; used as an intensive evaluative adjective.

“This chocolate cake is absolutely heavenly.”

“After a week of hiking in the rain, the warm bath and clean sheets felt truly heavenly.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Science Literary

adj. related to the sky, stars, or planets.

adj. relating to the physical heavens or the sky as an astronomical realm.

“The telescope allows us to see heavenly bodies like distant planets.”

“Ancient navigators relied on the movement of heavenly bodies to determine their position across the open sea.”

C2 · Proficiency Literary · Archaic

adv. in a way that seems like it comes from heaven or God.

adv. in a manner suggesting divine influence or origin.

“The music sounded heavenly sweet in the quiet night.”

“The poet described a landscape heavenly blessed by the morning light, untouched by the industrial smoke of the city.”