Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Deprived of a blessing.
  • adjective Unholy; evil.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as unblest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not blessed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not provided with something desirable

Etymologies

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un- +‎ blessed

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Examples

  • So, we live in a perfect world: blessed people are happy and "unblessed" people are happily punished.

    Planet Atheism 2008

  • “Celeste, you must have faith in me until I can further prove to you who I am, but it is not safe for you or your aunt that we tarry outside of an unblessed structure.”

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • Let me care for Hester in my own way so long as I do no sin and harm no one; and be you father to us, and bless us who else must go unblessed.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • The racist and elitist roots of gun control are never better depicted by Mayors Daley and Bloomberg strutting along with their security details while generally non-white and economically unblessed citizens make up the majority of the non-criminal bodycount.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “He Grabbed a Rifle, Held It Up, and Looked Right at Me.” 2010

  • “Celeste, you must have faith in me until I can further prove to you who I am, but it is not safe for you or your aunt that we tarry outside of an unblessed structure.”

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • In her second novel, the author has achieved an even more impressive goal, inspiring compassion for a character unblessed with Evelyn's immediate appeal…

    The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty: Book summary 2010

  • The racist and elitist roots of gun control are never better depicted by Mayors Daley and Bloomberg strutting along with their security details while generally non-white and economically unblessed citizens make up the majority of the non-criminal bodycount.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “He Grabbed a Rifle, Held It Up, and Looked Right at Me.” 2010

  • A life among the Vis Sestani might be better than any baby of hers would have in a village—especially if, like Aubry, her next child was born of an unblessed bed.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • The ranks of his men closed in orderly march and followed him, and the bruised and draggled survivors of Gwion's unblessed army took up their dead and straggled after, leaving the trampled and bloodied beach clear of all but the drovers and their cattle, and Cadwaladr alone, aloof from all men, stalking in a black, forbidding cloud of disgust and humiliation after his brother.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Next day he pretends to perform an exorcism, but he cheats, using pig-Latin and unblessed water; and the elephant punishes him for it; or at any rate, for whatever reason, though usually a polite animal, it kicks him, though gently.

    The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago 2010

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