blissful

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adjective

Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveblissful (comparative more blissful, superlative most blissful)

comparative more blissful · superlative most blissful · alternative blissfull

  1. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.

    In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view;

    1738, Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, lines 25–26
    2 more examples

    She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.

    1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women

    New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.

    1983, James Hijiya, “American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History,”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 127, number 5, page 349
  2. obsoleteBlessed; glorified.

Synonyms & antonyms

Broader

adjectivecompletely happy and contented

Similar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishblisful
  2. Englishblissful

From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.

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Translations

Bulgarian блажен
  • блажен (blažen)full of joy
Czech blažený
  • blaženýfull of joy
Esperanto beata
  • beatafull of joy
Finnish autuas
  • autuasfull of joy
French bienheureux
  • bienheureuxfull of joy
German glückselig, beglückt
  • glückseligfull of joy
  • beglücktfull of joy
Polish błogi
  • błogifull of joy
Russian блаже́нный, счастли́вый
  • блаже́нный (blažénnyj)full of joy
  • счастли́вый (sčastlívyj)full of joy
Spanish dichoso, feliz
  • dichosofull of joy
  • felizfull of joy
  • maravillosofull of joy
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APA

blissful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blissful

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“blissful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blissful. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blissful,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blissful.

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