blessed

See also: blessèd and Blessed

English

Alternative forms

• blessèd, blesséd (poetic)
• blest (archaic)

Pronunciation

Adjective

• enPR: blĕsʹĭd, blĕst, IPA^(key): /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪd, -ɛst
• Hyphenation: bless‧ed

Verb

• enPR: blĕst, IPA^(key): /blɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: blessed

Adjective

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
   • 1611, King James Bible, Matthew 5:5

     Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

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.
   • 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.
5. (informal) An intensifier; damned.

   Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

Synonyms

• (revered): revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped
• (holy): hallowed, holy, sacred

Antonyms

• (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing): condemned, cursed, damned
• (revered): contemned, despised, scorned
• (holy): profane, unhallowed, unholy

Derived terms

• blessed event
• blessedly
• blessedness

Translations

having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing

• Afrikaans: geseënd, welgeluksalig
• Arabic: مُبَارَك‎ (mubārak)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: בְּרִיךְ‎ (bərīḵ), מְבָרַךְ‎ (məḇāraḵ)

  Syriac: ܒܪܝܟ‎ (bərīḵ), ܡܒܪܟ‎ (məḇāraḵ)

• Armenian: օրհնյալ (hy) (ōrhnyal)
• Bulgarian: благословен (bg) (blagosloven)
• Czech: požehnaný
• Dutch: gezegend (nl)
• Finnish: siunattu
• French: bienheureux (fr), béni (fr)
• Galician: bendicido, bieito
• German: gesegnet (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (audahafts)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μακάριος (makários)

• Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ‎ (he) (barúkh), מבורך \ מְבֹרַךְ‎ (m'vorákh)

• Hungarian: áldott (hu)
• Interlingue: benedit, beat
• Italian: beato (it)
• Kapampangan: nuan, nuwan
• Latin: beatus
• Latvian: svētīts
• Norwegian: velsignet
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍‎ (qutluɣ)
• Plautdietsch: seelich
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Portuguese: abençoado (pt)
• Romanian: binecuvântat (ro), blagoslovit (ro)
• Russian: благослове́нный (ru) (blagoslovénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh
• Spanish: bendito (es)
• Tagalog: pinagpala
• Turkish: kutlu (tr), mübarek (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎎𐎗𐎗 (ảmrr)

In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person

• Bulgarian: блажен (bg) (blažen)
• Dutch: zalig (nl)
• Galician: beato (gl)
• German: selig (de)
• Hungarian: boldog (hu)

• Interlingue: beat
• Italian: beato (it)
• Polish: błogosławiony (pl)
• Russian: блаже́нный (ru) (blažénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh

held in veneration; revered

• Italian: benedetto (it)

worthy of worship; holy

• Bulgarian: свещен (bg) (svešten)
• Finnish: pyhä (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پیرۆز‎ (ku) (pîroz)

• Portuguese: bendito (pt), bento (pt)
• Russian: свято́й (ru) (svjatój), свяще́нный (ru) (svjaščénnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naomh

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: beato, benedetto

Verb

blessed

1. simple past tense and past participle of bless

Anagrams

• bedless