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(adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" |
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Synonyms: blest |
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Antonyms: cursed |
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(satellite adjective) having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era" |
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Synonyms: blessed with, endued with |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time" |
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(satellite adjective) enjoying the bliss of heaven |
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(satellite adjective) worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" |
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(satellite adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration |
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Synonyms: beatified |
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(satellite adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers; "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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" |
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Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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