Definitions

Garden of Eden

NOUN

Eden

Synonyms

STRONG

Arcadia Shangri-la garden heaven utopia

WEAK

Promised Land heaven on earth

Antonyms

STRONG

hell

NOUN

Shangri-la

Synonyms

STRONG

Arcadia Eden Erewhon bliss heaven paradise

WEAK

Elysian Fields Promised Land Xanadu seventh heaven

Antonyms

STRONG

hell

NOUN

utopia

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bliss paradise

STRONG

Arcadia Eden Erewhon Shangri-la dreamland dreamworld fairyland heaven perfection wonderland

WEAK

Elysian Fields Promised Land Zion fantasy land of milk and honey never-never land nirvana pie in the sky seventh heaven

Antonyms

STRONGEST

antiutopia cacotopia dystopia

WEAK

apocalypse hell hellscape nightmare wasteland

Example Sentences

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The forest becomes a Garden of Eden, marred by human transgressions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The Garden of Eden surely had palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

One is filled with flowers sprouting everywhere like a Garden of Eden gone berserk.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

It could have been the Garden of Eden, so rich was the promise of paradise.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023

This year he went to Africa to see the Garden of Eden.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas