blissful

Etymology

From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.

adj

  1. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
    In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view; 1738, Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, lines 25–26
    She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world. 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women
    New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul. 1983, James Hijiya, “American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History,”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 127, number 5, page 349
  2. (obsolete) Blessed; glorified.

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