paradisiacal

variants or paradisiac

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Recent Examples of paradisiacal For Coppola's own children, Blancaneaux Lodge was a paradisiacal coming-of-age setting. Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Nov. 2024 By Jesse Ashlock October 10, 2024 In the seven years since its opening, the beachfront resort Baha Mar has become one of the Bahamas’ premier luxury escapes, offering travelers a paradisiacal getaway just a three-hour flight from New York City. Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024 They are scheduled to go on a bike ride to a tortoise sanctuary, ending the trip with a paradisiacal beach picnic. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025 His naïve younger brother, Gustavo (Eros de la Puente), finds a way to join him, and for a while the two enjoy a paradisiacal, summer-camp-like freedom. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for paradisiacal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradisiacal
Adjective
  • Soviet citizens in the 1980s could no longer ignore the glaring differences between the utopian promises of communism and the reality of an autocratic and incompetent regime.
    Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Ars Technica: Your AI take is that neither the dystopian view of sentient AI or the utopian view is necessarily correct.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But cracks in their blissful arrangement form when Vitti meets a fortysomething professor at a chamber music concert and becomes infatuated with him.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
  • There is a specific phrase for the blissful drowsiness associated with time spent in a heated box (saunanjälkeinen raukeus) and a specific elf (Saunatonttu) thought to live between a sauna’s wall and heating apparatus.
    Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • And looked in my direction with beatific warmth.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025
  • That sincere belief in the serenity of golfing is affirmed by the beatific animation.
    Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Paradisiacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradisiacal. Accessed 15 May. 2025.

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