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Adjective

Verb

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

  1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
    Antonyms: condemned, cursed, damned
    • 1971, Bobby Womack, “That's the Way I Feel About Cha”, in Communication:
      You're pushing my love / A little bit too far / I don't think you know, I don't think you know how blessed you are / And your friend Annie Mae / Tell you all she see / Have you ever thought she was trying to get close to me?
  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.

having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing

held in veneration; revered

worthy of worship; holy

blessed

  1. simple past and past participle of bless

blessed

  1. simple past of bless
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Blessed yarth amang meyen.
      Blessed art thou amongst women.

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