Paradisiacal (adj)
pa-rad-ais-ay-ik-al
(of a place or state) ideal or idyllic; heavenly.
From paradise. Middle English: from Old French paradis, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek paradeisos ‘royal (enclosed) park’, from Avestan pairidaēza ‘enclosure, park’.
Example sentences
“I didn’t want to come home, it was simply paradisiacal.”
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