Angelic means beautifully good, like an angel. An angelic face, angelic voices, angelic patience.
It praises goodness with a suggestion of purity and calm, and it is used of children, voices and choirs. Applied to a child who has just done something terrible it is heavily ironic, which is much of its everyday use. Note angelically; and that the Greek angelos means a messenger, so an angel is a messenger and angelic is messenger-like — the goodness is entirely an English addition.
1adjectiveangelicBeautifully good, like an angel.
“The baby slept with an angelic smile on her face.”
synonyms: saintly, cherubic
angelic is a quality of goodness.
Latin angelicus comes from Greek angelikos, from angelos, a messenger. Evangelist means bringer of good news from the same messenger.
Ancient Greek
ἀγγελικός — of or for a messenger
Latin
angelicus
Old French
angélique
Old English
anġelīċ
Middle English
angelik
English, today
angelic
Built from
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 (“of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (“angel”). Equivalent to angel + ic. a doublet of angelique and angélique.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA