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Divine

adj.joyful, calmwarm

What it means

Exceptionally pleasing or wonderful, or understood as belonging to a deity or the sacred.

Reach for it when expressing delighted admiration or referring respectfully to sacred origin

The bakery released a divine scent of orange, butter, and warm cardamom.

Choose between these

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  • playful

    delicious

    when taste is the only source of pleasure

    not when Delicious cannot praise music, weather, or sacred power.

  • everyday

    wonderful

    when broad enthusiastic approval is enough

    not when Wonderful loses divine's intensity and sacred resonance.

  • warm

    heavenly

    when sensory pleasure invites a light sacred metaphor

    not when Heavenly sounds playful and may be unsuitable for a literal religious claim.

  • formal

    sacred

    when religious reverence is literally intended

    not when Sacred means set apart or holy, not simply connected with a deity.

  • formal

    sublime

    when beauty or excellence inspires awe

    not when Sublime is cooler and more philosophical than delighted divine.

  • literary

    exquisite

    when refined beauty or flavor deserves precise praise

    not when Exquisite emphasizes delicacy, not spiritual significance.

  • literary

    godly

    when conduct resembling divine goodness is meant

    not when Godly usually describes piety or moral character, not origin.

Said against

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  • earthly
  • awful
  • profane

It naturally appears in

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  • divine inspiration

    The poet described the sudden melody as divine inspiration.

  • simply divine

    The poached apricots were simply divine with cold cream.

  • divine presence

    Worshippers understood the stillness as a divine presence.

The word family

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