Elysian
[ɪ'lɪʒən]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Charming, delightful, ravishing, enchanting, blissful, heavenly, celestial, exceedingly happy.
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Examples
- It is the Elysian fields of foam where rest the spirits of wearied mariners. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Even in the Elysian fields, Virgil describes the souls of the happy as eager to drink of the wave which was to restore them to this mortal coil. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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