blissful
Etymology

From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.

Adjective

blissful

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
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