heavenly

[hev-uhn-lee] / ˈhɛv ən li /

ADJECTIVE

very pleasant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

angelic blissful celestial delectable delicious divine glorious holy lovely luscious ravishing sublime supernatural wonderful

WEAK

adorable alluring ambrosial beatific beautiful blessed cherubic darling delightful empyrean enjoyable entrancing excellent exquisite extraterrestrial godlike immortal lush paradisaical rapturous scrumptious seraphic superhuman supernal sweet yummy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awful disagreeable earthly horrible terrible unpleasant

WEAK

hellish

Example Sentences

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Musk had preached of populating Mars, but now his focus has turned to a closer heavenly body, our moon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Behind her are large, glowing angel wings set against a golden, cloudy sky, creating a heavenly theme.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

"So yeah, this was really heavenly to work on."

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

There is something elementally heavenly about the smell of alliums cooking in butter.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

Orthodox teaching was that the moon, being a heavenly body, was a perfectly smooth, round sphere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton