Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) 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.

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

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