blessèd

Adjective

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
   • Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5

   Antonyms:

   condemned, cursed, damned

2. 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.
   • ‘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.’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6

   Synonyms:

   revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped, admired, applauded, distinguished, eminent, esteemed, feared

   Antonyms:

   contemned, despised, scorned

4. Worthy of worship; holy.

   Synonyms:

   hallowed, holy, sacred, celestial, devoutful, divine, heavenly, godly, sanctimonious

   Antonyms:

   profane, unhallowed, unholy

5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
   • 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, […]1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

   Synonyms:

   divine, elect, saved, departed, with God, asleep, at rest, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased

   Antonyms:

   damned, godforsaken, above ground, alive and kicking, alive, alive and well, animate, animated, extant, kicking

6. (euphemistic, informal) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
   • Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

   Synonyms:

   cursed, infernal, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blimming, blinking

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