Bliss
[blɪs]
Definition
(n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Happiness, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatitude, beatification, transport, rapture, ecstasy, heavenly joy.
Checked by Angelique
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blessedness, joy, ecstasy, rapture
ANT:Condemnation, accursedness, suffering, misery, woe
Edited by Erna
Definition
n. the highest happiness: the special happiness of heaven heaven.—adj. Bliss′ful.—adv. Bliss′fully.—n. Bliss′fulness.—adj. Bliss′less without bliss.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- The beauty, oh the beauty of them, and oh the paradisal bliss, if she should have a perfect bouquet and could give it to Gudrun the next day. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Did the sun shine on any, who could enjoy its light with purer and more intense bliss? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was not the bliss of her heart, nor the peace of his. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What a heaven of bliss! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I dreamed it would be nameless bliss, As I loved, loved to be; And to this object did I press As blind as eagerly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Lucia