| a. | 1. | Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. |
| 2. | Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. | |
| 3. | Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. | |
| 4. | Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; | |
| 5. | (R. C. Ch.) Beatified. | |
| 6. | Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. |
| Adj. | 1. | blessed - highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" Synonyms: blest |
| 2. | Blessed - worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" | |
| 3. | blessed - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" | |
| 4. | blessed - Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration Synonyms: beatified | |
| 5. | blessed - enjoying the bliss of heaven | |
| 6. | blessed - characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time" | |
| 7. | blessed - having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era" Synonyms: blessed with, endued with |
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