[responsivevoice] elysian [/responsivevoice] [ ih-lizh-uh n ]
The word of the day is ‘elysian.’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Celestial
2. Characteristic of heaven or paradise
3. Divine
4. Heavenly
1. Hindi – Divy
2. Spanish – Elysian
3. French – Elyséen
4. Mandarin – Jílè shìjiè
1. His Elysian gardens, thought he, was about to be snatched away.
2. Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be forever banished.
3. It would be a wonder if there are really Elysian fields and in the shades of people.
4. The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian life.
5. They went about in a state of Elysian beatitude, these young people.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
angelic, divine, ethereal, immortal, otherworldly, spiritual, sublime, supernatural, astral, blessed, empyreal, empyrean, eternal, godlike, hallowed, holy, seraphic, supernal, transcendental, transmundane, heavenly, paradisal, paradisiacal, celestial, superlunary, etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
earthly, hellish, infernal, mortal, mundane
Quotation:
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
Jean Giraudoux
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