Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ecstatic |
| Synonyms: | delighted, delightful, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, happy |
| Main Entry: | angelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweet, kind, and usually beautiful |
| Synonyms: | adorable, archangelic, beatific, beneficent, celestial, cherubic, devout, divine, entrancing, ethereal, godly, good, heavenly, holy, humble, innocent, lovely, otherworldly, pure, radiant, rapturous, righteous, saintly, self-sacrificing, seraphic, virtuous |
| Antonyms: | demonic, devilish, fiendish, unkind |
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine, rapturous, sent, spaced-out, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | grieving, miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captivating |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, bewitching, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, electrifying, elegant, enamoring, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, infatuating, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, magnetizing, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sweet, tantalizing, tempting, titillating, winning, winsome |
| Antonyms: | frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsing, repulsive, terrifying |
| Main Entry: | delightful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasant, charming |
| Synonyms: | adorable, agreeable, alluring, ambrosial, amusing, attractive, beautiful, captivating, cheery, clever, congenial, darling, delectable, delicious, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fair, fascinating, gratifying, heavenly, ineffable, lovely, luscious, lush, pleasing, pleasurable, rapturous, ravishing, refreshing, satisfying, scrumptious, thrilling, yummy* |
| Notes: | delightful is more general than delectable which describes a sensual experience |
| Antonyms: | bad, disappointing, horrible, unamusing, unenjoyable, unhappy, unpleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delirious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited; very happy |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, carried away, corybantic, crazy, delighted, drunk*, ecstatic, enthused, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hysterical, intoxicated, mad, overwrought, rabid*, rapturous, thrilled, transported, wild |
| Antonyms: | unexcited, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | godlike, perfect |
| Synonyms: | all-powerful, almighty, ambrosial, angelic, anointed, beatific, beautiful, blissful, celestial, consecrated, deific, deistic, eternal, exalted, excellent, glorious, godly, hallowed, heavenly, holy, immaculate, magnificent, marvelous, mystical, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, rapturous, religious, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified, spiritual, splendid, superhuman, superlative, supernatural, supreme, theistic, transcendent, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
| Synonyms: | athrill, beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enraptured, enthusiastic, entranced, euphoric, fervent, floating, flying high, frenzied, gone*, high*, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine, out, overjoyed, pleased as punch, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink, tickled to death, transported, turned on, upbeat, wild |
| Antonyms: | despaired, sorrowful, tormented, troubled, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heavenly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very pleasant |
| Synonyms: | adorable, alluring, ambrosial, angelic, beatific, beautiful, blessed, blissful, celestial, cherubic, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, divine, empyrean, enjoyable, entrancing, excellent, exquisite, extraterrestrial, glorious, godlike, holy, immortal, lovely, luscious, lush, paradisaical, rapturous, ravishing, scrumptious, seraphic, sublime, superhuman, supernal, supernatural, sweet, wonderful, yummy |
| Antonyms: | hellish |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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