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Adjective blessed has 7 senses
- blessed, blest - highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
Antonyms: cursed, curst, accursed, accurst, maledict, blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamned, infernal, cursed with, stuck with, damnable, execrable, damn, goddamn
- Blessed - worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
Antonyms: unholy, unhallowed (indirect, via holy)
- blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
Antonyms: blessed, blest (indirect, via cursed)
- beatified, blessed - Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
Antonyms: unholy, unhallowed (indirect, via holy)
- blessed - enjoying the bliss of heaven
Antonym: lost (indirect, via saved)
- blessed - characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
Antonym: unhappy (indirect, via happy)
- blessed, blessed with, endued with - having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
Antonym: unendowed (indirect, via endowed)
Verb bless has 4 senses
- bless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
--1 is one way to raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
Antonyms: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
- bless - confer prosperity or happiness on
--2 is one way to confer, bestow
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s somebody
- bless, sign - make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
--3 is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify - render holy by means of religious rites
--4 is one way to declare
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Somebody ----s somebody
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