blissful

CEFRC1

/blˈɪsfəl/

adjective

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.

In context

She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view;
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.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

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