From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al;^[1] equivalent to angel +‎ -ical.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/

angelical (comparative more angelical, superlative most angelical)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.

   Synonyms: angelic, angellike, angelly; see also Thesaurus:angelic

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
     Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
     Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

   • 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall,[…], published 1861, →OCLC:

     She was all angelical gentleness.

   • 2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 2 Nov. 2008:

     "You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.

• “angelical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

• Galenical, englacial, galenical

From angélico +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: an‧ge‧li‧cal

angelical m or f (plural angelicais)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

• angelicalmente

• “angelical”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “angelical”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /anxeliˈkal/ [ãŋ.xe.liˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: an‧ge‧li‧cal

angelical m or f (masculine and feminine plural angelicales)

1. angelic (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel)

   Synonym: angélico

• “angelical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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