blessed
pronunciation
How to pronounce blessed in British English:
UK [blest , ˈblesɪd]
How to pronounce blessed in American English:
US [blest , ˈblesɪd]
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- Adjective:
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
- enjoying the bliss of heaven
- characterized by happiness and good fortune
- having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination
Word Origin
- blessed (adj.)
- late 12c., "supremely happy," also "consecrated" (c. 1200), past participle adjective from bless (v.). Reversed or ironic sense of "cursed, damned" is recorded from 1806. Related: Blessedly; blessedness.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Point to ponder : blessed are the balanced .
- 2. Blessed silence and relief descend .
- 3. This year thecomedians were blessed with plenty of material .
- 4. You who fly in the wind , blessed art thou .
- 5. The sun god also blessed their marriage .