Blissful
['blɪsfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['blɪsfl]
Definition
(adj.) completely happy and contented; 'blissful young lovers'; 'in blissful ignorance' .
Edited by Craig--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Transported, enraptured, in raptures, in ecstasies, very happy, full of joy, highly blessed.
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Examples
- Fate had been benign to the blissful dreamer, and promised to favour her yet again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How many a summer hour have I known to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And this was one of the perfect moments of freedom and delight, such as children alone know, when all seems a perfect and blissful adventure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- BLISSFUL All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Following it out to blissful results, he had descried, without self-commendation, a fitness in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One can imagine what answer he made, how he received his present, and what a blissful state of things ensued. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That I was lost in blissful delirium. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have set all this down, in my present blissful chapter, because here it comes into its natural place. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It seems a year ago, answered Meg, who was in a blissful dream lifted far above such common things as bread and butter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Cradled at last in blissful self-complacency, she took her knitting, and sat down tranquil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A pleasant winter to you, and may the gods grant you a blissful honeymoon at Valrosa! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And you will not dream of separation and sorrow to-night; but of happy love and blissful union. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So I passed that blissful night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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