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A beatific expression, look, or smile shows great peace and happiness—it is angelic and saintly.
If you describe someone as benign, they are kind, gentle, and harmless.
Someone who has a bilious personality is highly irritable and bad-tempered.
Someone who has a bristling personality is easily offended, annoyed, or angered.
Candor is the quality of being honest and open in speech or action.
Someone who is corpulent is extremely fat.
If you say something is diabolical, you are emphasizing that it is evil, cruel, or very bad.
Someone who is disingenuous is not straightforward or is dishonest in what they say or do.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
A dulcet sound is soft and pleasant in a gentle way.
A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin because of a serious illness or lack of food.
Something ethereal has a delicate beauty that makes it seem not part of the real world.
Someone who has a haggard appearance looks very tired, worn, thin, and exhausted.
Something that is hallowed is respected and admired, usually because it is holy or important in some way.
People who are ingenuous are excessively trusting and believe almost everything that people tell them, especially because they have not had much life experience.
When something is luminous, it is bright and glowing.
A malevolent person or thing is evil due to deliberate attempts to cause harm.
Malice is a type of hatred that causes a strong desire to harm others both physically and emotionally.
Numinous objects or places seem spiritual or holy and possess a mysterious power that makes you feel that a spiritual being may be present.
If someone is rotund, they have a round and fat body.
If you are sanguine about a situation, especially a difficult one, you are confident and cheerful that everything will work out the way you want it to.
Someone’s sardonic smile, expression, or comment shows a lack of respect for what someone else has said or done; this occurs because the former thinks they are too important to consider or discuss such a supposedly trivial matter of the latter.
A troglodyte is reclusive, severely lacking in social skills, and is out of step with current times.
Adj.
cherubic
chuh-ROO-bik
Context
The little boy’s round face and bright eyes gave him a sweet and cherubic expression. The guests smiled kindly when the boy interrupted the dinner party, looking around the room for his mother with an innocent and cherubic gaze. It was clear that he had woken up from a deep sleep; his messy hair, flushed cheeks, and angelic, cherubic appearance made him look even younger than he actually was.
Quiz:Try again!
When might a child be called cherubic?
When they follow directions and never forget to do something.
When they are laughing and playing with their friends.
When they have a sweet, kind face like a chubby baby’s.
My Chubby Cherub's Cherry Face I love to kiss my chubby cherub's cherry face, and I often rub in a red ointment to make it even more cherry in color!
Examples
An early family photograph shows a cherubic little boy in the uniform of a Soviet naval cadet, grinning as he stands nestled between his father and mother.
—
TIME
It was the height of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and toy stores were filled with their cherubic white faces; the few Black dolls scattered among them were made with the same shape and features, but used brown fabric.
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The New York Times
Word Ingredients
From a root word meaning “gracious.” A cherubic or “angelic” person is filled with “grace.”
origin: Akkadian
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Related Words
beatific ·
benign ·
candor ·
corpulent ·
dulcet ·
ethereal ·
hallowed ·
ingenuous ·
luminous ·
numinous ·
rotund ·
sanguine ·
bilious ·
bristling ·
diabolical ·
disingenuous ·
dour ·
emaciated ·
haggard+ ·
malevolent ·
malice ·
sardonic ·
troglodyte ·
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Word Variants
cherub
n
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an innocent child with a chubby, red face
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