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单词 seraphic
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Definition of seraphic in English:

seraphic

adjective səˈrafɪksəˈræfɪk
  • Characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim; angelic.

    炽天使的;天使般的

    a seraphic smile

    天使般的微笑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And the dirt beneath his feet was sacred and rich, because her petite feet had once graced it with their seraphic presence.
    • When the curtain rose next Grace entered alone to begin her first solo, the King of Thule, filling the amphitheatre with her pure seraphic voice.
    • His innocence, and seraphic ways might have been the reason why his father loved him so.
    • Funerals are now talked about as much as they ever were in the morbid high Victorian era of mourning stationery and seraphic monuments.
    • He looked at her with eyes unlike anyone else's: eyes that were seraphic bright blue, but with pupils burning with coruscating white fire.
    • The music of dawn floated in through his open window, a gentle melody of two or three seraphic pianolas playing, in unison, a lost song of an eternally troubled composer, whose name is not on one's lips, but in the sky.
    • For a time there are smiles, and arms lifted up, and seraphic dreamy looks, and a swaying to the music, and warm embraces of other people and enthusiasm for Christian things.
    • He believes that her seraphic new image is down to some kind of medical intervention.
    • We can trace it in the joy of his seraphic graphic art.
    • And in a child's voice, so full of seraphic purity, the words were read.
    • His voice was weak, but his countenance was seraphic, his long white hair reaching to his shoulders.
    • Here in Baghdad I am writing next to a table lately sliced in two by a falling pane of glass, and am told by the seraphic ambassador that we could be shelled again at any time.
    Synonyms
    blissful, beatific, sublime, rapturous, ecstatic, joyful, rapt
    serene, ethereal
    pure, innocent, cherubic, saintly, angelic
    celestial, heavenly, holy, divine

Derivatives

  • seraphically

  • adverb səˈrafɪklisəˈræfək(ə)li
    • He does well to make these scenes as tolerable as they are (Howard's job being simply to gaze seraphically into space), but all the film gains from the plot's paraphernalia is a couple of superficial twists.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Mozart is more successful because its emotional content is well served by the players' ‘let's play as seraphically as we can’ attitudes.
      • "No," he replied, and smiled seraphically, as was his wont.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin seraphicus, from late Latin seraphim (see seraph).

Rhymes

autobiographic, autographic, bibliographic, biographic, calligraphic, cartographic, choreographic, cinematographic, cryptographic, demographic, geographic, graphic, hagiographic, historiographic, holographic, hydrographic, iconographic, lithographic, monographic, orthographic, palaeographic (US paleographic), photographic, pictographic, pornographic, reprographic, Sapphic, stenographic, telegraphic, traffic, typographic, xerographic

Definition of seraphic in US English:

seraphic

adjectivesəˈrafiksəˈræfɪk
  • Characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim.

    炽天使的;天使般的

    a seraphic smile

    天使般的微笑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He looked at her with eyes unlike anyone else's: eyes that were seraphic bright blue, but with pupils burning with coruscating white fire.
    • His voice was weak, but his countenance was seraphic, his long white hair reaching to his shoulders.
    • He believes that her seraphic new image is down to some kind of medical intervention.
    • His innocence, and seraphic ways might have been the reason why his father loved him so.
    • We can trace it in the joy of his seraphic graphic art.
    • The music of dawn floated in through his open window, a gentle melody of two or three seraphic pianolas playing, in unison, a lost song of an eternally troubled composer, whose name is not on one's lips, but in the sky.
    • And the dirt beneath his feet was sacred and rich, because her petite feet had once graced it with their seraphic presence.
    • Here in Baghdad I am writing next to a table lately sliced in two by a falling pane of glass, and am told by the seraphic ambassador that we could be shelled again at any time.
    • For a time there are smiles, and arms lifted up, and seraphic dreamy looks, and a swaying to the music, and warm embraces of other people and enthusiasm for Christian things.
    • Funerals are now talked about as much as they ever were in the morbid high Victorian era of mourning stationery and seraphic monuments.
    • When the curtain rose next Grace entered alone to begin her first solo, the King of Thule, filling the amphitheatre with her pure seraphic voice.
    • And in a child's voice, so full of seraphic purity, the words were read.
    Synonyms
    blissful, beatific, sublime, rapturous, ecstatic, joyful, rapt

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin seraphicus, from late Latin seraphim (see seraph).

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