blessed
adj.
fortunate, supremely favored; sanctified, holy
bless
v.
bestow good, give favor; sanctify, make holy
Blessed
Blessed may refer to:The state of having received a
blessing.In
Roman Catholicism, a title applied to someone who has been
beatified.
Blessed, a dancehall album by
Beenie Man.
Blessed (Hillsong album), an album by Hillsong Music Australia (2002)
Blessed, a 2004 motion picture about a supernatural pregnancy.
Blessed, a 2005
BBC television sitcom.
Brian Blessed (born 1937), British actor.Blessed is a song on the 1966 LP
Sounds of Silence by
Simon and Garfunkel.Blessed, a 1995 song by
Elton John.Blesséd, Christian
alternative worship group on the South Coast of the UK A Blessed reference is the main mechanism for support of
object-oriented programming in the
Perl programming language.Blessed - a special type of video-game item, usually particular to role-playing games, that cannot be stolen or dropped upon death. An example is a player-owned house key from
Ultima Online.
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Blessed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bless
(a.)
Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
(a.)
Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
(a.)
Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
(a.)
Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
(a.)
Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
(a.)
Beatified.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Blessed
Adjective
1. worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
(similar) holy
blessed
Adjective
1. highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
(synonym) blest
(antonym) cursed, curst
(similar) favored, fortunate, golden
2. expletives used informally as intensifiers; "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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
(synonym) blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
(similar) cursed, curst
3. Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
(synonym) beatified
(similar) holy
4. enjoying the bliss of heaven
(similar) saved
5. characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
(similar) happy
6. having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
(synonym) blessed with(p), endued with(p)
(similar) endowed
bless
Verb
1. give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
(antonym) curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
(hypernym) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(hyponym) anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
(derivation) benediction, blessing
2. confer prosperity or happiness on
(hypernym) confer, bestow
3. make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
(synonym) sign
(hypernym) gesticulate, gesture, motion
4. render holy by means of religious rites
(synonym) consecrate, hallow, sanctify
(hypernym) declare
(hyponym) reconsecrate
寿比南山,福如东海
shou4 bi3 nan2 shan1, fu2 ru2 dong1 hai3
(May you) live as long as the southern mountain and be as blessed as the eastern sea.
This is a blessing used for, e.g., on birthday cards.