angelic
/ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.13 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
adj
Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.
adj
Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
adj
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.
noun
A member of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul, a Roman Catholic religious order.
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Etymology
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”).