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):

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: blessed

Adjective

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

   Antonyms: condemned, cursed, damned

   • 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.

   Synonyms: revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped; see also Thesaurus:revered

   Antonyms: contemned, despised, scorned

   • 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.

   Synonyms: hallowed, holy, sacred; see also Thesaurus:holy

   Antonyms: profane, unhallowed, unholy

5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.

   Synonyms: divine, elect, saved; departed, with God; see also Thesaurus:dead

   Antonyms: damned, godforsaken; above ground, alive and kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive

   • 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)

   Synonyms: blessed, cursed, infernal; see also Thesaurus:damned

   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.

Derived terms

• blessed assurance
• blessed event
• blessedfull
• blessedly
• blessedness
• blessed thistle
• blursed
• have a blessed one
• Island of the Blessed
• of blessed memory
• unblessed

Translations

having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing

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

  Hebrew script: 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 Greek: μακάριος (makários)

• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Kazakh: жарылқанған (jarylqanğan)
• Khmer: ប្រទានពរ (bratan por)
• Korean: 축복 받은 (chukbok bad-eun)
• Latin: beatus
• Latvian: svētīts
• Malay: bertuah, dirahmati, diberkati
• Māori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: адислагдсан (adislagdsan)
• Norwegian: velsignet
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍 (qut¹l¹uǧ /⁠qutluɣ⁠/)
• Plautdietsch: seelich
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Portuguese: abençoado (pt), bendito (pt), bem-aventurado (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
• French: bienheureux (fr)
• Galician: beato (gl)
• German: selig (de)
• Hungarian: boldog (hu)
• Italian: beato (it)
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Portuguese: beato (pt)
• Russian: блаже́нный (ru) (blažénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh
• Swedish: salig (sv)

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

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

Verb

blessed

1. simple past and past participle of bless

Anagrams

• bedless

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛst/

Verb

blessed

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

     Blessed yarth amang meyen.

     Blessed art thou amongst women.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 56