bliss
/blɪs/
bliss noun: perfect happiness.
Noun
bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)
- Perfect happiness.
- The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
- Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia...
Verb
bliss (third-person singular simple present blisses, present participle blissing, simple past and past participle blissed)
Proper noun capitalized: Bliss
Bliss
- An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
- A unisex given name from English.
- "Mother doesn't seem to especially like her little granddaughter as it is, even named 'Edna Louise'. D'you think she's going to like her better, named 'Bliss' like some sexpot pop star or some Indian-mystic asshole-charlatan?"
- Betsey winced. "Bliss" was a beautiful name!2008, Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 97
- a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
- A ghost town in California.
- A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
- A township in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in the town of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York.
- Former name of Old Bliss, Oklahoma.
bliss meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
bliss in Hindi
- perfect happiness
- आनन्द ānand
bliss in Tamil
- கழிபேருவகை, பேரின்பம், மகிழ்ச்சி
bliss in Urdu
- perfect happiness
- آنند ānand
bliss in Bengali
- পরম সুখ, স্বর্গীয় সুখ
More languagesFewer languages
- bliss in Malayalam
- പൊരുൾ poruḷ
- bliss in Kannada
- ದೊಡ್ಡ ಹೊಂಪುಳಿ, ಆನಂದ, ಪರಮಾನಂದ, ಮಹದಾನಂದ
- bliss in Arabic
- نَعِيم naʕīm
- bliss in Malay
- kebahagiaan
- bliss in Persian
- سعادت sa'âdat
- bliss in Thai
- ความผาสุก kwaam-pǎa-sùk
Examples of bliss in a sentence
- Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.
- She was so blissed out that she could barely stand, but a moment of true happiness will do that.
- Moments such as these were laced throughout, often referencing nature, and culminating in postcoital bliss: “Mmh yes.”
Forms of bliss
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blisses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blisses |
| present participle | blissing |
| past participle | blissed |
| past | blissed |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Blish |
Origin of bliss
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Words formed from bliss
Phrases with bliss
Words that rhyme with bliss
Questions about bliss
- What does bliss mean?
- Bliss means perfect happiness.
- What is bliss in Hindi?
- Bliss in Hindi is आनन्द (ānand). See Bliss meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bliss?
- Bliss can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bliss?
- Bliss is pronounced /blɪs/.
- What is the plural of bliss?
- The plural of bliss is blisses.
Words near bliss in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bliss (page history and authors); Bliss (page history and authors); bliss (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bliss (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പൊരുൾ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); bliss (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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