Adjective: angelic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more angelic |
| Superlative | most angelic |
Sample Sentences
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an angelic child
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The choir sang in angelic voices.
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She gave him an angelic smile.
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The baby’s face looked so peaceful and angelic in sleep.
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an angelic ester
Adjectives inflected like angelic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”). See: Latin Adjectives '
angelicus'.