blissful
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.
Adjectiveblissful
- Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
- 1738, Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, lines 25–26:
- In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
And call Britannia's glories back to view;
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women:
- She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
- (obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
- French: bienheureux
- German: glückselig, beglückt
- Russian: блаже́нный
- Spanish: dichoso, feliz, maravilloso
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