blessed Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb give a benediction to
bless.
- The dying man blessed his son
verb confer prosperity or happiness on
bless.
verb make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
bless; sign.
verb render holy by means of religious rites
bless; consecrate; hallow; sanctify.
adjective highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
blest.
- our blessed land
- the blessed assurance of a steady income
adjective satellite worthy of worship
- the Blessed Trinity
adjective satellite expletives used informally as intensifiers
darned; goddamned; goddam; goddamn; blamed; blame; infernal; damn; deuced; damned; blasted.
- 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
- an infernal nuisance
adjective satellite Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
beatified.
adjective satellite enjoying the bliss of heaven
adjective satellite characterized by happiness and good fortune
- a blessed time

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.
Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48.

Towards England's blessed shore. Shak.
Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a disposition." Shak.
Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak.

Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton.
(R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.