blessed

== English == === Alternative forms === blessèd, blesséd (poetic) blest (archaic) === Pronunciation === Adjective enPR: blĕsʹĭd, IPA(key): /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/ Rhymes: -ɛsɪd Hyphenation: bless‧ed Verb enPR: blĕst, IPA(key): /blɛst/ Rhymes: -ɛst Hyphenation: blessed === Adjective === blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed) Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. Held in veneration; revered. Worthy of worship; holy. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial) ==== Synonyms ==== (revered): revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped (holy): hallowed, holy, sacred ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing”): condemned, cursed, damned (antonym(s) of “revered”): contemned, despised, scorned (antonym(s) of “holy”): profane, unhallowed, unholy ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === blessed simple past and past participle of bless === Anagrams === bedless == Yola == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blɛst/ === Verb === blessed simple past of bless === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56