# angelic

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/ · frequency rank #24,376

## Definitions
1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
2. Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.
3. Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
4. A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.

## Etymology
From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

## Easily confused with
- **angels** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angels)
- **Angelo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angelo)
- **Anglia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-anglia)
- **Angell** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angell)
- **Angelus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angelus)
- **Angelina** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angelina)
- **angelica** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angelic-vs-angelica)
- **angel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angel-vs-angelic)
- **Angela** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angela-vs-angelic)
- **anemic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/anemic-vs-angelic)
- **Angeles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/angeles-vs-angelic)

## Common misspellings (10)
`agnelic`, `aneglic`, `angeilc`, `angelci`, `angelicc`, `angellic`, `anggelic`, `angleic`, `anngelic`, `nagelic`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/angelic