Adjective: angelical
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more angelical |
| Superlative | most angelical |
Sample Sentences
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O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
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Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
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Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
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She was all angelical gentleness. [1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:]
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"You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said. [2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 02 Nov 2008:]
Adjectives inflected like angelical
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 aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel + -ical. See: Latin Adjectives '
angelicus'.