单词 | paradisiac |
释义 | paradisiacadj. = paradisiacal adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [adjective] > of or relating to place of supreme happiness paradisal1568 paradisian1615 Hesperian1622 paradisaical1623 paradisiac1632 paradisean1647 paradisiacal1649 paradisic1723 paradisical1728 Elysian1750 paradisaic1754 paradisial1776 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 208 This Paradisiac [printed Paradisiat] Shamma, is the..most beautiful place of all Asia. ?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 117 This most delightful rural and paradisiac recess. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xix. 291 The paradisiac beauty and simplicity of Tropic humanity. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 144 So slipt pleasantly away five years Of Paradisiac dream. 1950 V. Nabokov in New Yorker 15 Apr. 36/3 Like one of those paradisiac personages who comfortably soar..on the vaulted ceiling of a church. 1994 T. Zeldin Intimate Hist. Humanity 91 Trained to enjoy sensual pleasures, spending four months each year in a paradisiac, wild place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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