divineadjective
uk/dɪˈvaɪn/us/dɪˈvaɪn/divine adjective (GOD-LIKE)
connected with a god, or like a god:
Some fans seem to regard the players as divine beings.
divine intervention (= help from God)
Just because you've been promoted that doesn't give you a divine right (= one like that of a god) to tell us all what to do.
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God & gods
- almighty
- Aphrodite
- Apollo
- Artemis
- Athena
- demigod
- father
- goddess
- incarnation
- infinite
- Jehovah
- Jesus Christ
- lamb
- lord
- muse
- Nike
- saviour
- sun god
- the Fates idiom
- trinity
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divine adjective (SPLENDID)
old-fashioned extremely good, pleasant, or enjoyable:
We had a perfectly divine time in Switzerland.
Their new house is quite divine!
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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divinely
adverb uk/dɪˈvaɪn.li/us/dɪˈvaɪn.li/
divineverb
uk/dɪˈvaɪn/us/dɪˈvaɪn/formaldivine verb (GUESS)
[ T ] to guess something:
[ + that ] I divined from his grim expression that the news was not good.
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Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- fall
- hypothesize
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- surmise
- think
- think of sth/sb
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divine verb (SEARCH)
[ I or T ] to search for water or minerals underground by holding horizontally in your hands a Y-shaped rod or stick, the end of which suddenly points down slightly when water or minerals are below it:
a divining rod
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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