divine
Meanings
Plural: divines
Noun
- terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
- a clergyman or other person in religious orders
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
Verb
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- "He claimed he could divine underground water"
- To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- To render divine; to deify.
Adjective Satellite
- emanating from God; ; ; -Saturday Review
- "divine judgment"
- "divine guidance"
- resulting from divine providence
- being or having the nature of a god; -J.G.Frazier; ; ; -J.G.Saxe
- "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"
- "the divine will"
- "the divine capacity for love"
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- "divine worship"
- "divine liturgy"
- appropriate to or befitting a god; ; ; -R.H.Roveref
- "the divine strength of Achilles"
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- "her pies were simply divine"
- "the divine Shakespeare"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- Foreboding; prescient.
- immortal; elect or saved after death
- Relating to divinity or theology.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Synonyms
Allah, Almighty, beautiful, churchman, clergyman, cleric, Creator, deific, deity, delightful, ecclesiastic, elysian, exquisite, god, God, God Almighty, Godhead, godlike, godly, hallowed, heavenly, holy, inspired, Jehovah, Lord, lovely, magnificent, Maker, man of the cloth, marvellous/marvelous, providential, sacred, splendid, supreme, theologian, ultimate, wonderful
Antonyms
godless, horrible, horrid, humdrum, mediocre, nasty, ordinary, secular, undivine, ungodly, unpleasant
Scrabble Score: 10
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