ANGELIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angelic mean? 

• ANGELIC (adjective)
  The adjective ANGELIC has 3 senses:

1. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint

2. of or relating to angels

3. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub

  Familiarity information: ANGELIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGELIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint

Synonyms:

angelic; angelical; beatific; sainted; saintlike; saintly

Context example:

my sainted mother

Similar:

good (morally admirable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to angels

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

angelic; angelical

Context example:

angelic messenger

Pertainym:

angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

Derivation:

angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub

Synonyms:

angelic; angelical; cherubic; seraphic; sweet

Context example:

a sweet disposition

Similar:

lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)

 Context examples 

Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best, with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were my brethren, my fellow beings, and I felt attracted even to the most repulsive among them, as to creatures of an angelic nature and celestial mechanism.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I recollect Peggotty and I peeping out at them from my little window; I recollect how closely they seemed to be examining the sweetbriar between them, as they strolled along; and how, from being in a perfectly angelic temper, Peggotty turned cross in a moment, and brushed my hair the wrong way, excessively hard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This, par parenthese, will be thought cool language by persons who entertain solemn doctrines about the angelic nature of children, and the duty of those charged with their education to conceive for them an idolatrous devotion: but I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why don't you say you'd have a splendid, wise, good husband and some angelic little children?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On hearing this word, Felix came up hastily to the lady, who, when she saw him, threw up her veil, and I beheld a countenance of angelic beauty and expression.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Whensoever, slowly pondering over my letter, I lifted up my eyes, and meeting the thoughtful face of Agnes, saw it clear, and beam encouragement upon me, with its own angelic expression, I was conscious presently of the evil eye passing me, and going on to her, and coming back to me again, and dropping furtively upon the knitting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)