Blissful Meaning
/blˈɪsfəl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjExtremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
adjBlessed; glorified.
Sentence Examples
How about spending an elegant and blissful time at a beauty salon?
Anything is blissful with you. Nothing is meaningful without you.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The couple spent a ____ weekend hiking through the beautiful mountains.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They spent a ____ afternoon relaxing by the calm and blue ocean.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The couple spent a ____ weekend hiking through the beautiful mountains.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They spent a ____ afternoon relaxing by the calm and blue ocean.