What is another word for beatific?

Pronunciation: [biːɐtˈɪfɪk] (IPA)

Beatific means giving or showing blissful happiness and a state of utmost joy. Synonyms for the word "beatific" are celestial, divine, holy, blessed, rapturous, heavenly, euphoric, delightful, and enchanting. These words are used to describe a state of being where one experiences ultimate contentment and utter joy. Beatific could also be synonymous with ecstatic, rhapsodic, and exuberant. It is often used to describe a feeling of spiritual enlightenment or a state of grace. Regardless of the word used, the meaning of beatific is the same - to describe a state of blissful happiness and joy.

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What are the hypernyms for Beatific?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for beatific?

The word "beatific" refers to a state of bliss or happiness. Its antonyms, on the other hand, are words that describe the opposite of that state. Some common antonyms for "beatific" are "miserable," "gloomy," "sad," "distressed," "depressed," and "woeful." These words convey negative emotions and feelings of sorrow, despair, or pain. They represent a mindset that is far from the peaceful and contented state of beatific. Using the antonyms of beatific in your writing can help create a mood and tone that is somber, melancholic, or even tragic.

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Usage examples for Beatific

That the dinner had been a success gastronomically, socially and financially, was apparent from the beatific boozy smile that pervaded Breen's face as he lay back in his easy-chair.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Then it became a blissful skating over awful abysses-a delirium of the senses full of intangible joys-a beatific offering of herself to a lacerating scourge, an alternative ebullition of self-scorn and degradation and blasphemous prayer.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The meal progressed in calm and beatific silence.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Beatific

  • I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific...
    Jack Kerouac
  • What another being is life when we have found out our Father ; and if we work, it is beneath His eye, and if we play, it is in the light and encouragement of His smile. Earth's sunshine is heaven's radiance, and the stars of night as if the beginning of the beatific vision; so soft, so sweet, so gentle, so reposeful, so almost infinite have all things become, because we have found our Father in our God.
    Frederick William Faber

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