Blessed

/ˈblɛsɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
3. Held in veneration; revered.
4. Worthy of worship; holy.
5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
6. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
7. simple past and past participle of bless

Example Sentences

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

You're pushing my love / A little bit too far / I don't think you know, I don't think you know how blessed you are / And your friend Annie Mae / Tell you all she see / Have you ever thought she was trying to get close to me?

‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’

I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]

Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.

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Word Forms

• more blessed
• most blessed
• blessèd
• blesséd
• blest

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