blessed

See also: blessèd and Blessed

English

Alternative forms

• blessèd, blesséd (poetic)
• blest (archaic)

Pronunciation

Adjective

• enPR: blĕsʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪd
• Hyphenation: bless‧ed

Verb

• enPR: blĕst, IPA^(key): /blɛst/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: blessed

Adjective

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5:

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

2. (Roman Catholicism) A 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.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:

     ‘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.’

4. Worthy of worship; holy.
5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     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, […]

6. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

   Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

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

Synonyms

• (revered): revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped
• (holy): hallowed, holy, sacred

Antonyms

• (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing): condemned, cursed, damned
• (revered): contemned, despised, scorned
• (holy): profane, unhallowed, unholy

Derived terms

• blessed assurance
• blessed event
• blessedly
• blessedness
• blessed thistle
• have a blessed one
• of blessed memory

 

Translations

having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing

• Afrikaans: geseënd, welgeluksalig
• Arabic: مُبَارَك‎ (mubārak)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: בְּרִיךְ‎ (bərīḵ), מְבָרַךְ‎ (məḇāraḵ)

  Syriac: ܒܪܝܟ‎ (bərīḵ), ܡܒܪܟ‎ (məḇāraḵ)

• Armenian: օրհնյալ (hy) (ōrhnyal)
• Bulgarian: благословен (bg) (blagosloven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幸福 (zh) (xìngfú)

• Czech: požehnaný
• Dutch: gezegend (nl)
• Esperanto: benata
• Finnish: siunattu
• French: bienheureux (fr), béni (fr)
• Galician: bendicido, bieito
• German: gesegnet (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (audahafts)
• Greek: ευλογημένος (el) (evlogiménos)

  Ancient: μακάριος (makários)

• Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ‎ (he) (barúkh), מבורך / מְבֹרַךְ‎ (m'vorákh)
• Hungarian: áldott (hu)
• Icelandic: blessaður (is)
• Italian: beato (it)
• Japanese: 恵まれた (megumareta)
• Kapampangan: nuan, nuwan
• Khmer: ប្រទានពរ (bratan por)
• Korean: 축복 받은 (chukbok bad-eun)
• Latin: beatus
• Latvian: svētīts
• Malay: bertuah, dirahmati, diberkati
• Mongolian: адислагдсан (adislagdsan)
• Norwegian: velsignet
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍‎ (qut¹l¹uǧ /⁠qutluɣ⁠/)
• Plautdietsch: seelich
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Portuguese: abençoado (pt)
• Romanian: binecuvântat (ro), blagoslovit (ro)
• Russian: благослове́нный (ru) (blagoslovénnyj)
• Sanskrit: भद्र (sa) n (bhadra)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh
• Serbo-Croatian: благословени
• Spanish: bendito (es)
• Tagalog: pinagpala
• Thai: มีความสุข
• Turkish: kutlu (tr), mübarek (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎎𐎗𐎗 (ảmrr)
• Vietnamese: hạnh phúc (vi)

In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person

• Bulgarian: блажен (bg) (blažen)
• Dutch: zalig (nl)
• Esperanto: beata
• Galician: beato (gl)
• German: selig (de)
• Hungarian: boldog (hu)
• Italian: beato (it)
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Russian: блаже́нный (ru) (blažénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh

held in veneration; revered

• Italian: benedetto (it)

worthy of worship; holy

• Bulgarian: свещен (bg) (svešten)
• Esperanto: benita
• Finnish: pyhä (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پیرۆز‎ (pîroz)

• Portuguese: bendito (pt), bento (pt)
• Russian: свято́й (ru) (svjatój), свяще́нный (ru) (svjaščénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} beato (it), ^{(please verify)} benedetto (it)

Verb

blessed

1. simple past and past participle of bless

Anagrams

• bedless

Yola

Verb

blessed

1. simple past tense of bless
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Blessed yarth amang meyen.

     Blessed art thou amongst women.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 56