English Online Dictionary. What means blessed? What does blessed mean?
English
Alternative forms
- blessèd, blesséd (poetic)
- blest (archaic)
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- enPR: blĕsʹĭd, IPA(key): /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛsɪd
- Hyphenation: bless‧ed
- Verb
- enPR: blĕst, IPA(key): /blɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
- Hyphenation: blessed
Adjective
blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)
- Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
- (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.
- Held in veneration; revered.
- Worthy of worship; holy.
- Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
- (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
Synonyms
- (revered): revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped
- (holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing”): condemned, cursed, damned
- (antonym(s) of “revered”): contemned, despised, scorned
- (antonym(s) of “holy”): profane, unhallowed, unholy
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
blessed
- simple past and past participle of bless
Anagrams
- bedless
Yola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɛst/
Verb
blessed
- simple past of bless
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56