bless´ed|ness

bless´ed|ness
bless|ed «BLEHS ihd; especially poetic blehst», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. holy; sacred: »

the blessed Trinity.

SYNONYM(S): consecrated.
2. bringing joy; joyful: »

the blessed rain following a drought.

3. happy; fortunate: »

Blessed are the pure in heart (Matthew 5:8).

4. enjoying the favor of heaven; beatified.
5. Informal. a euphemism for “cursed”; confounded: »

I can't get this blessed car to start.

SYNONYM(S): annoying.
–n.
the Blessed, (in the Roman Catholic Church) a person or persons beatified by a decree of the Pope (a title characterizing one adjudged worthy of veneration but not canonized, although often preceding canonization): »

The men, in their togas, reminded one of saints;…they “recalled irresistibly the conventional pictures of evangelical piety that represented the Blessed walking in the vales of Paradise” (New Yorker).

–bless´ed|ly, adverb.
–bless´ed|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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