HEAVEN-SENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heaven-sent mean? 

• HEAVEN-SENT (adjective)
  The adjective HEAVEN-SENT has 1 sense:

1. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention

  Familiarity information: HEAVEN-SENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVEN-SENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention

Synonyms:

heaven-sent; miraculous; providential

Context example:

a providential recovery

Similar:

fortunate (having unexpected good fortune)

 Context examples 

"Have you had that, too?" she queried absently, intent on the heaven-sent justification she was finding in his arms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)