“blessed”

Definitions

• adjective

  worthy of worship

  Synonyms: elysian, olympian, absolute, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified, beatitude, blamed, blasted, blessedness, bliss

  • Example:“the Blessed Trinity”

• adjective

  highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)

  Synonyms: blest

  Antonyms: cursed

  • Example:“our blessed land”
  • Example:“the blessed assurance of a steady income”

• adjective

  expletives used informally as intensifiers

  Synonyms: blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned

  • Example:“He's a blasted idiot.”
  • Example:“It's a blamed shame.”

• adjective

  Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration

  Synonyms: beatified

• adjective

  enjoying the bliss of heaven

• adjective

  characterized by happiness and good fortune

  • Example:“a blessed time”