Words that rhyme with celestial

  • accentual
    adj 1: of or pertaining to accent or stress 2: (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm" [ant: quantitative, syllabic]
  • actual
    adj 1: presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined conditions" [syn: actual, existent] [ant: possible, potential] 2: taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; "we saw the actual wedding on television"; "filmed the actual beating" 3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 4: existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" [syn: actual, factual] 5: being or existing at the present moment; "the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"
  • aspectual
    adj 1: of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb); "the aspectual system of Greek"
  • bestial
    adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
  • conceptual
    adj 1: being or characterized by concepts or their formation; "conceptual discussions"; "the schizophrenic loses ability to abstract or do conceptual thinking"; "sex is a notional category, gender is a grammatical category"
  • contextual
    adj 1: relating to or determined by or in context; "contextual information"
  • contractual
    adj 1: relating to or part of a binding legal agreement; "contractual obligations"
  • effectual
    adj 1: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long- distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant: ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective] 2: having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property" [syn: legal, sound, effectual]
  • eventual
    adj 1: expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating; "hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue"; "if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market"
  • factual
    adj 1: existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" [syn: actual, factual] 2: of or relating to or characterized by facts; "factual considerations"
  • habitual
    adj 1: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)]
  • ineffectual
    adj 1: not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation" [syn: ineffective, uneffective, ineffectual] [ant: effective, effectual, efficacious] 2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing] 3: lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes" [syn: ineffective, ineffectual, unable]
  • intellectual
    adj 1: of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: intellectual, rational, noetic] 2: appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" [ant: nonintellectual] 3: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional] n 1: a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect]
  • lacteal
    adj 1: relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk; "lacteal fluids"; "lacteal organs" n 1: any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct
  • mutual
    adj 1: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 2: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [syn: reciprocal, mutual] [ant: nonreciprocal]
  • nuptial
    adj 1: of or relating to a wedding; "bridal procession"; "nuptial day"; "spousal rites"; "wedding cake"; "marriage vows" [syn: bridal, nuptial, spousal]
  • perpetual
    adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing] 2: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never- ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]
  • punctual
    adj 1: acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed; "she expected guests to be punctual at meals"; "he is not a particularly punctual person"; "punctual payment" [ant: unpunctual]
  • satchel
    n 1: luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap
  • spiritual
    adj 1: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs" [syn: religious, spiritual] 2: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [syn: spiritual, unearthly] 3: lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford 4: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual] n 1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States [syn: spiritual, Negro spiritual]
  • tactual
    adj 1: of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex" [syn: haptic, tactile, tactual] 2: producing a sensation of touch; "tactile qualities"; "the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair" [syn: tactile, tactual]
  • tangential
    adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: digressive, tangential] 2: of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; "tangential forces"
  • textual
    adj 1: of or relating to or based on a text; "textual analysis"
  • virtual
    adj 1: being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin" [syn: virtual(a), practical(a)] 2: existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact; "a virtual dependence on charity"; "a virtual revolution"; "virtual reality"
  • mitchell
    n 1: English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937) [syn: Mitchell, R. J. Mitchell, Reginald Joseph Mitchell] 2: United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936) [syn: Mitchell, William Mitchell, Billy Mitchell] 3: United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889) [syn: Mitchell, Maria Mitchell] 4: United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949) [syn: Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell] 5: United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919) [syn: Mitchell, John Mitchell] 6: United States dancer who formed the first Black classical ballet company (born in 1934) [syn: Mitchell, Arthur Mitchell]
  • conventual
    adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]
  • luteal
    adj 1: of or relating to the corpus luteum
  • churchill
    n 1: English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722) [syn: Churchill, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, First Duke of Marlborough] 2: British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) [syn: Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill] 3: a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain
  • gluteal
    adj 1: of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles
  • instinctual
  • chul

See also celestial definition and celestial synonyms