blessed
Meaning
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- Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
- A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
- Held in veneration; revered.
- Worthy of worship; holy.
- Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
- (informal) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
Synonyms
be fortunate
happy person
worth-while
worthy to be blessed by men
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bless‧ed
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈblɛsɪd/
New
bless
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- To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
- To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.
- To invoke divine favor upon.
- To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.
- To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
- (obsolete) To wave; to brandish.
- To turn (a reference) into an object.
- To secure, defend, or prevent from.
- (slang) To give or send.
- To approve of or assent to.
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