Blessed

Quick meaning: Blessed is an adjective meaning Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

Meaning

Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

More Meanings

1. Held in veneration; revered.
2. Worthy of worship; holy.
3. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
4. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
5. simple past and past participle of bless
6. (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.

Example Sentences

Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

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

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

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, […]

Word Forms

• blest

Synonyms for blessed

Depending on context, synonyms include revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped, admired, applauded.

Antonyms for blessed

Common opposites include condemned, cursed, contemned, despised, scorned, profane.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include holy, saved, glorious, favored, infernal, beatified.

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