Supreme vs Heavenly - What's the difference?
supreme | heavenly |
Dominant, having power over all others.
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, title= Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
(botany) Situated at the highest part or point.
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English adjectives commonly used as postmodifiers
(cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.
(cookery) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
(cookery) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
Of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions; good, beautiful, glorious, pleasurable.
Of or pertaining to the heavens or sky, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets and stars.
Of or pertaining to the kingdom of God; divine.
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Extremely beautiful or pleasurable.
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In a manner like that of heaven; by the influence or agency of heaven; divinely, miraculously.
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To a degree such as to elicit great pleasure.
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As a proper noun supreme
is the supreme being; the almighty; god.As an adjective heavenly is
of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions; good, beautiful, glorious, pleasurable.As an adverb heavenly is
in a manner like that of heaven; by the influence or agency of heaven; divinely, miraculously.supreme
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Synonyms
* (having power over all others) predominant, preponderant, regnantDerived terms
* supremacy * supreme being * Supreme SovietVerb
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(en-adj)page 131,
- No doubt, you have all personally considered — no doubt, you have all personally experienced, that of all the blessings which it has pleased Providence to allow us to cultivate, there is not one which breathes a purer fragrance, or bears an heavenlier aspect than education.
- Oh, please continue giving me a massage - it?s absolutely heavenly .
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- So he flew down and got that acorn, and fetched it up and dropped it in, and was just tilting his head back, with the heavenliest smile on his face, when all of a sudden he was paralyzed into a listening attitude and that smile faded gradually out of his countenance like breath off?n a razor, and the queerest look of surprise took its place.
Synonyms
* (of or pertaining to the heaven of any of many religions) * celestial * (of or pertaining to the Kingdom of God) divine * (extremely beautiful or pleasurable) beatific, divineDerived terms
* heavenly bodyAdverb
(en adverb)- by night [she] saw that God in her armes, saying moreover unto her, that the next day, the first man she met withall, should heavenly pay her her wages.
- Then, we taste the refried beans and the rice, and they are so heavenly delicious.