blissfully
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English blisfully, blisfulliche, blisvolliche, equivalent to blissful + -ly.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/
Adverb
editblissfully (comparative more blissfully, superlative most blissfully)
- In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
- 1834, Heman Humphrey, Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews:
- What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.
- 2000, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home:
- I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.