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BEATIFIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beatific mean?
• BEATIFIC (adjective)
The adjective BEATIFIC has 2 senses:
1. experiencing or bestowing celestial joy
2. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
Familiarity information: BEATIFIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy
Context example:
beatific peace
Similar:
joyful (full of or producing joy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
Synonyms:
angelic; angelical; beatific; sainted; saintlike; saintly
Context example:
my sainted mother
Similar:
good (morally admirable)
Context examples
Personally, I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one in a silent ecstasy and beaming benevolence from every feature.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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