blessed

comparative more blessed · superlative most blessed · alternative blessèd · alternative blesséd · alternative blest

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

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

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5

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   You're pushing my love / A little bit too far / I don't think you know, I don't think you know how blessed you are / And your friend Annie Mae / Tell you all she see / Have you ever thought she was trying to get close to me?

   1971, Bobby Womack, “That's the Way I Feel About Cha”, in Communication

   Antonyms: condemned, cursed, damned

2. CatholicismA 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.

   ‘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.’

   1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6

   Synonyms: revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped, admired, applauded, distinguished, eminent · Antonyms: contemned, despised, scorned

4. Worthy of worship; holy.

   Synonyms: hallowed, holy, sacred, celestial, devoutful, divine, hallowed, heavenly · Antonyms: profane, unhallowed, unholy

5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.

   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, […]

   1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

   Synonyms: divine, elect, saved, departed, with God, asleep, at rest, cadaverous · Antonyms: damned, godforsaken, above ground, alive and kicking, above ground, alive, alive and kicking, alive and well

6. euphemisticinformaldamned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

   Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

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

   Synonyms: cursed, infernal, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping

alternative blessèd · alternative blesséd · alternative blest

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bless

1. A surname.

1. CatholicismAn epithet indicating that a person has been beatified.
2. Alternative letter-case form of blessed used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.

   This emendation is echoed in Thekla's reunion with Paul outside the city, where she offers the following prayer of thanksgiving: God, King and Blessed Creator of everything, and Father of your great and only begotten Child, I give you thanks.

   2012, Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite, →ISBN, page 62