Meaning

4 senses
  1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.

    engelhaft

    а́нгельскийángelʹskij

    having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub

  2. Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.

    an angelic child

    The choir sang in angelic voices.

  3. Of or pertaining to angelic acid.

    an angelic ester

  4. A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.

Examples

12 sentences
  1. She is by no means angelic.

    deSie ist ganz gewiss nicht engelhaft.

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  2. Don't be fooled by her angelic looks.

    ruНе обманывайся её ангельской внешностью.

    deLass dich nicht von ihrem engelhaften Aussehen täuschen!

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  3. The clouds suddenly darkened the angelic landscape.

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  4. His angelic face hid the fiend within.

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  5. I wouldn't mind having such angelic patience, either.

    ruЯ бы тоже не отказался от такого ангельского терпения.

    deIch hätte auch gerne so eine Engelsgeduld.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel:

Origin

From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English

From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

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Forms

more angelic, most angelic
Comparativemore angelic Lesson
Superlativemost angelic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

10 antonyms

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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