angelic

Very kind, good, or beautiful in a gentle, innocent way.

• The baby has an angelic smile.
• Her voice sounded angelic as she sang.
• The children looked angelic, but they had hidden my keys.

Similar words: sweet, innocent, cherubic

Opposites: devilish

Common phrases: angelic smile, angelic child, angelic face

Connected with the heavenly beings believed to serve God, or like one of those beings.

• The painting shows an angelic figure with golden wings.
• She described an angelic vision above the altar.
• The poem tells of an angelic messenger sent from heaven.

Similar words: heavenly, celestial

Common phrases: angelic wings, angelic messenger, angelic choir

Relating to a particular acid found in some plants and used in chemistry.

• The sample contains angelic acid.
• They prepared an angelic ester in the laboratory.
• The reaction changed the structure of the angelic acid molecule.

Common phrases: angelic acid, angelic ester

Describing a mathematical space where certain sets have compact closures, with every closure point reached by a sequence.

• This theorem applies to every angelic space.
• The proof shows that the space is angelic.
• An angelic space has particular properties involving compactness and sequences.

Common phrases: angelic space, angelic topology