divine
adjective
[ dɪˈvʌɪn ]
• of or like God or a god.
• "heroes with divine powers"
Similar:
godly,
godlike,
angelic,
seraphic,
saintly,
beatific,
spiritual,
heavenly,
celestial,
holy,
empyrean,
deiform,
deific,
• very pleasing; delightful.
• "he had the most divine smile"
Similar:
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,
bonny,
heavenly,
sublime,
dreamy,
sensational,
knockout,
stunning,
super,
great,
tasty,
fanciable,
easy on the eye,
a sight for sore eyes,
as nice as pie,
brilliant,
brill,
smashing,
cute,
beaut,
beauteous,
taking,
comely,
fair,
sightly,
divine
noun
• a cleric or theologian.
Similar:
theologian,
clergyman,
member of the clergy,
churchman,
churchwoman,
cleric,
ecclesiastic,
man of the cloth,
man of God,
holy man,
holy woman,
preacher,
priest,
kirkman,
reverend,
Holy Joe,
sky pilot,
josser,
• providence or God.
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’).
divine
verb
• discover (something) by guesswork or intuition.
• "mum had divined my state of mind"
Similar:
guess,
surmise,
conjecture,
suspect,
suppose,
assume,
presume,
deduce,
infer,
work out,
theorize,
hypothesize,
discern,
intuit,
perceive,
recognize,
see,
realize,
appreciate,
understand,
grasp,
apprehend,
comprehend,
figure,
figure out,
latch on to,
cotton on to,
catch on to,
tumble to,
get,
get the picture,
twig,
suss,
savvy,
cognize,
• have supernatural or magical insight into (future events).
• "frauds who claimed to divine the future in chickens' entrails"
Similar:
foretell,
predict,
prophesy,
forecast,
foresee,
prognosticate,
forewarn,
forebode,
previse,
presage,
foreshow,
croak,
spae,
vaticinate,
auspicate,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict’, from Latin divinare, from divinus (see divine1).
