Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss; full of felicity: as, “blissful joy,” Spenser, F. Q.; “blissful solitude,”
- [Cf. blessful.] Blessed; holy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
- adj. obsolete Blessed; glorified.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. completely happy and contented
Examples
“It had taken me two weeks and three focus groups to decide on the word blissful instead of peaceful.”
“However, as I remember from my days teaching, the kids themselves are not walking around in blissful awe but are, instead, wrapped up in all the adventures of this amazing period in their own lives with all the soap opera that often goes with it.”
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“The only saving grace: a quiet ten minutes straddling midnight during which I was able to retreat to a quiet location to hear the bells in blissful solitude.”
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“Our schools are orderly, sanitary places where students dwell in blissful ignorance of the chaos that awaits," West said.”
“He knew that he was doing the right thing by holding on, and there came to him certain blissful thrills of satisfaction.”
“Others were in blissful ignorance of what would develop.”
“My favorite line: “Others were in blissful ignorance of what would develop.””
“I must have been reading newspapers of a particularly delicate editorial constitution when this story originally broke because until this point I'd remained in blissful ignorance about precisely how Neil and Christine were alleged to have comported themselves during the Essex sex party.”
“I would rather experience the hills and valleys of living than live in blissful ignorance.”
“The rest of us live on the food they produce in blissful ignorance of how it actually made it to our tables.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blissful’.
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Moods
apathy, cuntificate, quixotic, noxious, fetid, malodorous, trepidation, expectancy, contempt, disgust, terror, fear and 149 more...
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eye-ful(l)
eyeful, I-ful, i beamful, eifel
reckful, soulful, awful, aweful, presentful, nowful, mindful, zestful, apful, fruitful, tankful, thankful and 62 more...
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Sent Com
words to be delt with in sc
blighted, confute, ostentatious, blissful, vulgarity, verbosity, vocalization, garish, tonality, insentient, reparative, restorative and 15 more...
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cithra's thoughtful words
words I am thinking about
marble, alphabet, ordinary, munificent, rotound, blissful, reparations, orthognathic, reverbation, autonomy, mirth, arbitrary and 15 more...
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Eilonwy's Words
edify, kindred spirit, verisimilitude, etymology, epitome, extemporaneous, eccentric, illuminate, renaissance, resplendent, dichotomy, tranquility and 75 more...
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Happy
raptures, blissful, elated, enchanted, gleeful, jubilant, intoxicated, exultant, euphoric, sprightly, vivacious, rapturous and 5 more...
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Good Mood
More fun to be in, less fun to say.
happy, content, pleased, beatific, sunny, cheerful, blissful, blithe, chipper, jolly, gay, glad and 21 more...
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When I think about girls . . .
it's hard to come up with just one word . . .
suitable, sultry, emotional, bodacious, bewitching, lady, catty, baroness, blissful, trollop, vamp, obsession and 52 more...
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