Beatific

Definitions: Beatific

Beatific

Adjective

1. Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace".

2. Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic benificence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother".

Date "beatific" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)

Synonyms: Beatific

Synonyms: angelic (adj), angelical (adj), sainted (adj), saintlike (adj), saintly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heaven	Adjective: heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.
Pain	Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beatific

English words defined with "beatific": angelic, angelical ♦ Beatific vision ♦ sainted, saintlike, saintly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Beatific afterlife in ancient Israel and in the ancient Near East (reference) Beatific comradeship : an exegetical-hermeneutical study on Lk 10:25-37 (reference) Profile of the Last Puritan: Jonathan Edwards, Self-Love, and the Dawn of Beatific (American Academy of Religion Academy Series, No 73) (reference) St. Albert the Great's Theory of the Beatific Vision (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Beatific" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beatific" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

Expression using "beatific": Beatific vision. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beatific"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏شديد الإبتهاج (jubilant). (various references)

Bulgarian		блажен (beatifical, blissful, heavenly, saturnian). (various references)

Czech		blažený (blessed, blissful). (various references)

Farsi		فرخنده (Auspicious, Happy, Jubilant), سعادت امیز. (various references)

French		béatifique. (various references)

German		glückselig (beatifical, blissful, blissfully happy, rapturous). (various references)

Greek		ευλογημένοσ (beatifical, blessed). (various references)

Hungarian		boldogító (beatifical, felicific), üdvözült (beatifical, blissful), üdvözítő. (various references)

Italian		beatifico (beatifical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		見神 (beatific vision). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		け�"し�" (beatific vision, dedication, devotion, inspection of a meter, medical examination, physical examination, yawn, yawning). (various references)

Manx		noo (consecrated, hallowed, holy, sacred, saint), flaunyssagh (blissful, celestial, divine, heavenly, inhabitant of heaven, paradisiac, Utopian). (various references)

Pig Latin		eatificbay

Portuguese		beatífico (beatifical, blissful). (various references)

Romanian		bucuros (beatifical, cheerful, content, delighted, exhilarated, fain, gay, glad, gladly, gratified, lief, merry, mirthful, pleased, readily, thankful, willingly, with a good grace), fericit (beatifical, blessed, blithe, felicitous, fortunate, glad, happily, happy, joyful, successful). (various references)

Russian		блаженный (beatifical, blissful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		blažen (beatifical, blessed, blissful, gracious). (various references)

Spanish		beatífico (beatifical). (various references)

Swedish		lycksalig (blissful, happy), himmelskg. (various references)

Turkish		mutlu eden, kutsayan, şad eden. (various references)

Ukranian		блаженний (blissful, blithe). (various references)

Vietnamese		ban phúc l� nh; l� m sung sướng, sung sướng (blissful, glad, happily), l� m hạnh phúc hạnh phúc. (various references)

Welsh		gwynfydus, gwynfydedig (blessed, happy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beatific": beatifically, beatification, beatifications. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beatific" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beatifie, beautific, beeatific, beuatific. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-i-i-t"
	-2 letters: biface, tibiae.
	-3 letters: befit, ceiba, facet, tibia.
	-4 letters: abet, bait, bate, beat, beta, bice, bite, cafe, cate, cite, etic, face, fact, fate, feat, feta, fiat, fice, tace.
	-5 letters: ace, act, aft, ait, ate, bat, bet, bit, cab, cat, eat, eft, eta, fat, fet, fib, fie, fit, ice, tab, tae, tea, tic, tie.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-f-i-i-t"
	+3 letters: beneficiate, certifiable, certifiably, rectifiable.
	+4 letters: beatifically, beneficiated, beneficiates.
	+5 letters: abortifacient, affectability, beatification, beneficiating, beneficiation.
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