English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Blessed (imp. & p. p.)

of Bless

Blessed (a.)

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.

Blessed (a.)

Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.

Blessed (a.)

Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.

Blessed (a.)

Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.

Blessed (a.)

Beatified.

Blessed (a.)

Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.

Blessed thistle

See under Thistle.

Blessedly (adv.)

Happily; fortunately; joyfully.

Blessedness (n.)

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

Blesser (n.)

One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.

Blessing (v. t.)

Grateful praise or worship.

Blessing (v. t.)

A gift.

Blessing (v. t.)

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.

Blessing (v. t.)

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.

Blessing (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Bless

Blessing (v. t.)

The act of one who blesses.

Blest

of Bless

Blest (a.)

Blessed.

Blet (n.)

A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.