verb
- Give a benediction to.
- usage: "The dying man blessed his son"
- synonyms: bless
- Confer prosperity or happiness on.
- synonyms: bless
- Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate.
- Render holy by means of religious rites.
- synonyms: consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify
adjective
- Highly favored or fortunate (as e. G. By divine grace. )
- usage: "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
- synonyms: blest
- Worthy of worship.
- usage: "the Blessed Trinity"
- Expletives used informally as intensifiers)
- usage: "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"; "an infernal nuisance"
- Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
- synonyms: beatified
- Enjoying the bliss of heaven.
- Characterized by happiness and good fortune.
- usage: "a blessed time"
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