Celestial

Quick meaning: Celestial is an adjective meaning (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.

Meaning

(not comparable) Of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.

More Meanings

1. Of a nose: upturned, as if towards the sky.
2. Of or relating to China; Chinese.
3. (figurative, comparable) Extremely beautiful, good, or pleasurable; divine, heavenly, wonderful.
4. Synonym of celestially (“in a celestial manner (adjective senses)”).
5. An inhabitant of heaven.
6. A thing from heaven; also, a heavenly quality.
7. (religion, not comparable) Of or relating to heaven as the place where deities (or the Christian God), spiritual beings, etc., exist; heavenly.

Example Sentences

We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants; […]

[H]e possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: […]

[W]e muſt of neceſſitie vſe the benefit of yeares, daies, hovvers, minutes, vvhich all grovve from cœleſtiall motion.

[G]oe vvith ſpeede / To ſome forlorne and naked Hermytage, / Remote from all the pleaſurs of the vvorld: / There ſtay vntill the tvvelue Celeſtiall Signes / Haue brought about the annuall reckoning.

Word Forms

• celestiall
• celestials

Synonyms for celestial

Depending on context, synonyms include celest, awesome, based, beat, beatific, bewildering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supernal, heavenly, ethereal, divine, highness, spatial.

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