About The Word Blessed
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Blessed
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What's The Definition Of Blessed?
[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"
[adj] highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [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" [adj] characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time" [adj] enjoying the bliss of heaven [adj] Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [adj] worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" Synonyms | Synonyms for Blessed: 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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Blessed: 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 See Also | Blessed In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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