BLESSED
Dictionary entry overview: What does Blessed mean?
• BLESSED (adjective)
The adjective BLESSED has 7 senses:
1. highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
2. worthy of worship
3. expletives used informally as intensifiers
4. Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
5. enjoying the bliss of heaven
6. characterized by happiness and good fortune
7. having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination
Familiarity information: BLESSED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• BLESSED (adjective)
Meaning:
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
Synonyms:
blessed; blest
Context examples:
our blessed land / the blessed assurance of a steady income
Similar:
favored; fortunate; golden (supremely favored or fortunate)
glorious (bringing great happiness and thankfulness)
Antonym:
cursed (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Meaning:
Worthy of worship
Context example:
the Blessed Trinity
Similar:
holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)
Meaning:
Expletives used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms:
blame; goddam; deuced; darned; damned; blasted; blamed; goddamned; damn; goddamn; infernal; blessed
Context examples:
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 / an infernal nuisance
Similar:
cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Meaning:
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
Synonyms:
beatified; blessed
Similar:
holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)
Meaning:
Enjoying the bliss of heaven
Similar:
saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)
Meaning:
Characterized by happiness and good fortune
Context example:
a blessed time
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune)
Meaning:
Having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination
Synonyms:
endued with; blessed with; blessed
Context examples:
blessed with a strong healthy body / a nation blessed with peace / a peace-blessed era
Similar:
endowed (provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature))
