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Meaning of 'blessed' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Blessed [ a.]
- Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
- Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
- Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
- Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
- Beatified.
- Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
2 . Blessed [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Bless

Meaning of 'blessed' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . blessed [ a]
Meaning (1):
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
Example in sentence:
  • our blessed land;
  • the blessed assurance of a steady income
2 . blessed [ s]
Meaning (2):
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
Example in sentence:
  • a blame cold winter;
  • a deuced idiot;
  • an infernal nuisance;
  • he's a blasted idiot;
  • he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool;
  • I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing;
  • it's a blamed shame;
  • not a blessed dime
Meaning (3):
- characterized by happiness and good fortune
Example in sentence:
  • a blessed time
Meaning (4):
- worthy of worship
Example in sentence:
  • the Blessed Trinity

Nearby Words:

blea bleaberry bleach bleached bleacher bleacheries bleachery bleaching bleak bleaky

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