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Meaning of BLESSED

Pronunciation:  'blesid

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
  2. [adj]  highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
  3. [adj]  having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
  4. [adj]  characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
  5. [adj]  enjoying the bliss of heaven
  6. [adj]  Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
  7. [adj]  worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
 
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 Synonyms: beatified, blame, blamed, blasted, blessed with(p), blest, cursed, curst, damn, damned, darned, deuced, endowed, endued with(p), everlasting, favored, fortunate, glorious, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, golden, happy, holy, infernal, saved
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), a.
1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration;
   heavenly; holy.
         O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it
         lowly at his blessed feet.            --Milton.
2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings;
   happy; highly favored.
         All generations shall call me blessed. --Luke i. 48.
         Towards England's blessed shore.      --Shak.
3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness;
   blissful; joyful. ``Then was a blessed time.'' ``So
   blessed a disposition.'' --Shak.
4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or
   heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
         Reverenced like a blessed saint.      --Shak.
         Cast out from God and blessed vision. --Milton.
5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
         Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.
                                               --R. D.
                                               Blackmore.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: absolute, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified, beatitude, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed with luck, blessedness, bliss, blissful, blooming, canonized, capering, celestial, cheerful, chirping, confounded, consecrated, cursed, cussed, dadburned, dancing, danged, darn, darned, dashed, dedicated, deuced, devoted, doggone, doggoned, downright, Elysian, ethereal, extramundane, extraterrestrial, favored, flushed with joy, fortunate, from on high, gay, glad, glorified, glowing, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, hallowed, happy, heavenly, in glory, in luck, infernal, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lucky, Olympian, otherworldly, outright, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, perfect, positive, providential, purring, radiant, regular, ruddy, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, set apart, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, supernal, thrice happy, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unmitigated, unworldly
 

 

 

 

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