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divine1
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See Spanish definition of divino
adjective
1‘Jesus is one person in both divine and human natures’
SYNONYMS
godly, godlike, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific
spiritual, heavenly, celestial, holy
rare empyrean, deiform, deific
ANTONYMS
mortal
2‘he could not be persuaded to attend divine worship’
SYNONYMS
religious, holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, blessed, devotional, devoted to God, dedicated to God
3‘don't you think he looks rather divine?’
SYNONYMS
lovely, handsome, beautiful, good-looking, prepossessing, charming, delightful, appealing, engaging, winsome, ravishing, gorgeous, bewitching, beguiling
wonderful, glorious, marvellous, excellent, superlative, perfect
delicious, mouth-watering, delectable
Scottish, Northern English bonny
informal heavenly, sublime, dreamy, sensational, knockout, stunning, super, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, great, tasty, fanciable, easy on the eye, a sight for sore eyes, as nice as pie
British informal brilliant, brill, smashing
North American informal cute
Australian, New Zealand informal beaut
formal beauteous
dated taking
archaic comely, fair
rare sightly
ANTONYMS
mundane, dreadful
noun
1‘puritan divines were concentrated on the salvation of the human soul’
SYNONYMS
theologian, clergyman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, ecclesiastic, man of the cloth, man of God, holy man, holy woman, preacher, priest
Scottish kirkman
informal reverend, Holy Joe, sky pilot
Australian informal josser
divine2
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See Spanish definition of divino
verb
1‘Fergus had divined how afraid she was’
SYNONYMS
guess, surmise, conjecture, suspect, suppose, assume, presume, deduce, infer, work out, theorize, hypothesize
discern, intuit, perceive, recognize, see, realize, appreciate, understand, grasp, apprehend, comprehend
North American figure
informal figure out, latch on to, cotton on to, catch on to, tumble to, get, get the picture
British informal twig, suss
North American informal savvy
rare cognize
2‘they had divined through omens that this was an auspicious day’
SYNONYMS
foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, foresee, prognosticate
forewarn, forebode
archaic previse, presage, foreshow, croak
Scottish archaic spae
rare vaticinate, auspicate
3‘he divined water supplies for desert troops’
SYNONYMS
dowse, find by dowsing
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