'Blessed' definitions:
Definition of 'blessed'
From: WordNet
adjective
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [syn: blessed, blest] [ant: cursed, curst]
adjective
Worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
adjective
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"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
adjective
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: beatified, blessed]
adjective
Enjoying the bliss of heaven
adjective
Characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
Definition of 'Blessed'
From: GCIDE
- Bless \Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blessedor Blest; p. pr. & vb. n. Blessing.] [OE. blessien, bletsen, AS. bletsian, bledsian, bloedsian, fr. bl?d blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. See Blood.]
- 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate [1913 Webster]
- And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. --Gen. ii. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. [1913 Webster]
- The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. --1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. ) [1913 Webster]
- 3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. [1913 Webster]
- Bless them which persecute you. --Rom. xii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. [1913 Webster]
- Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. [1913 Webster]
- Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. --Ps. ciii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. [1913 Webster]
- The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer. iv. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And burning blades about their heads do bless. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. "In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field." --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
- Bless me! Bless us! an exclamation of surprise. --Milton.
- To bless from, to secure, defend, or preserve from. "Bless me from marrying a usurer." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To bless the doors from nightly harm. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To bless with, To be blessed with, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blessed'
From: GCIDE
- Blessed \Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), a.
- 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. [1913 Webster]
- O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. [1913 Webster]
- All generations shall call me blessed. --Luke i. 48. [1913 Webster]
- Towards England's blessed shore. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a disposition." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. [1913 Webster]
- Reverenced like a blessed saint. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Cast out from God and blessed vision. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. [1913 Webster]
- Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'blessed'
From: GCIDE
- hallowed \hallowed\ adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy. [Narrower terms: {beatified, blessed ; {blessed ; {consecrated, sacred, sanctified ] Also See: consecrated, consecrate, sacred.
- Syn: holy. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'blessed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- auspicious,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- beatitude,
- blamed,
- blankety-blank,
- blasted,
- blessed with luck,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissful,
- blooming,
- canonized,
- capering,
- celestial,
- cheerful,
- chirping,
- confounded,
- consecrated,
- cursed,
- cussed,
- dadburned,
- dancing,
- danged,
- darn,
- darned,
- dashed,
- dedicated,
- deuced,
- devoted,
- doggone,
- doggoned,
- downright,
- Elysian,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- favored,
- flushed with joy,
- fortunate,
- from on high,
- gay,
- glad,
- glorified,
- glowing,
- goldanged,
- goldarned,
- goshdarn,
- hallowed,
- happy,
- heavenly,
- in glory,
- in luck,
- infernal,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughing,
- leaping,
- lucky,
- Olympian,
- otherworldly,
- outright,
- paradisaic,
- paradisal,
- paradisiac,
- paradisic,
- perfect,
- positive,
- providential,
- purring,
- radiant,
- regular,
- ruddy,
- sacred,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- set apart,
- singing,
- smiling,
- smirking,
- sparkling,
- starry-eyed,
- supernal,
- thrice happy,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unearthly,
- unmitigated,
- unworldly