Meanings
comparative more blissfully · superlative most blissfully
- In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.
1834, Heman Humphrey, Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews1 more example
I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.
2000, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
Origin
- Middle Englishblisfully
- Englishblissfully
From Middle English blisfully, blisfulliche, blisvolliche, equivalent to blissful + -ly.
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Czech blaze, blaženě
- blazein a joyful manner
- blaženěin a joyful manner
Esperanto beate
- beatein a joyful manner
Finnish iloisesti, onnellisesti
- iloisestiin a joyful manner
- onnellisestiin a joyful manner
French bienheureusement
- bienheureusementin a joyful manner
Polish błogo
- błogoin a joyful manner
Cite this entry
blissfully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blissfully
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