blessed

See also: blessèd and Blessed

English

Alternative forms

• blessèd, blesséd (poetic)
• blest (archaic)

Pronunciation

Adjective

• enPR: blĕsʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪd
• Hyphenation: bless‧ed

Verb

• enPR: blĕst, IPA^(key): /blɛst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: blessed

Adjective

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5:

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

2. (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.
3. Held in veneration; revered.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:

     ‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’

4. Worthy of worship; holy.
5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     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, […]

6. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

   Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

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

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

• blessed assurance
• blessed event
• blessedfull
• blessedly
• blessedness
• blessed thistle
• blursed
• have a blessed one
• of blessed memory
• unblessed

Translations

having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing

Afrikaans: geseënd, welgeluksalig Arabic: مُبَارَك (mubārak) Aramaic: Hebrew: בְּרִיךְ (bərīḵ), מְבָרַךְ (məḇāraḵ) Syriac: ܒܪܝܟ (bərīḵ), ܡܒܪܟ (məḇāraḵ) Armenian: օրհնյալ (hy) (ōrhnyal) Bulgarian: благословен (bg) (blagosloven) Chinese: Mandarin: 幸福 (zh) (xìngfú) Czech: požehnaný Dutch: gezegend (nl) Esperanto: benata Finnish: siunattu French: bienheureux (fr), béni (fr) Galician: bendicido, bieito German: gesegnet (de) Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (audahafts) Greek: ευλογημένος (el) (evlogiménos) Ancient: μακάριος (makários) Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ (he) (barúkh), מבורך / מְבֹרַךְ (m'vorákh) Hungarian: áldott (hu) Icelandic: blessaður (is) Italian: beato (it) Japanese: 恵まれた (megumareta) Kapampangan: nuan, nuwan Kazakh: жарылқанған (jarylqanğan) Khmer: ប្រទានពរ (bratan por) Korean: 축복 받은 (chukbok bad-eun) Latin: beatus Latvian: svētīts Malay: bertuah, dirahmati, diberkati Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: адислагдсан (adislagdsan) Norwegian: velsignet Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍 (qut¹l¹uǧ /⁠qutluɣ⁠/) Plautdietsch: seelich Polish: błogosławiony (pl) Portuguese: abençoado (pt), bendito (pt), bem-aventurado (pt) Romanian: binecuvântat (ro), blagoslovit (ro) Russian: благослове́нный (ru) (blagoslovénnyj) Sanskrit: भद्र (sa) n (bhadra) Scottish Gaelic: naomh Serbo-Croatian: благословени Spanish: bendito (es) Tagalog: pinagpala Thai: มีความสุข Turkish: kutlu (tr), mübarek (tr) Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎎𐎗𐎗 (ảmrr) Vietnamese: hạnh phúc (vi)

In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person

Bulgarian: блажен (bg) (blažen) Dutch: zalig (nl) Esperanto: beata French: bienheureux (fr) Galician: beato (gl) German: selig (de) Hungarian: boldog (hu) Italian: beato (it) Polish: błogosławiony (pl) Portuguese: beato (pt) Russian: блаже́нный (ru) (blažénnyj) Scottish Gaelic: naomh Swedish: salig (sv)

held in veneration; revered

Italian: benedetto (it)

worthy of worship; holy

Bulgarian: свещен (bg) (svešten) Esperanto: benita Finnish: pyhä (fi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پیرۆز (pîroz) Portuguese: bendito (pt), bento (pt) Russian: свято́й (ru) (svjatój), свяще́нный (ru) (svjaščénnyj) Scottish Gaelic: naomh

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Verb

blessed

1. simple past and past participle of bless

Anagrams

• bedless

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛst/

Verb

blessed

1. simple past of bless
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Blessed yarth amang meyen.

     Blessed art thou amongst women.

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