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  bliss

  noun

  supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment.
• Bliss
  Bliss

  noun

  Sir Arthur (Edward Drummond), 1891–1975, English composer.

bliss

¹ American  

[blis] / blɪs /

noun

1. supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment.

   wedded bliss.

   Antonyms:

   misery

2. Theology. the joy of heaven.

3. heaven; paradise.

   the road to eternal bliss.

4. Archaic. a cause of great joy or happiness.

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idioms

1. bliss out,

   1. to experience bliss or euphoria.

      Just give them some bean sprouts and a little tofu and they bliss out.

   2. to cause to become blissful or euphoric.

      a recording guaranteed to bliss out every Mozart fan.

Bliss ² American  

[blis] / blɪs /

noun

1. Sir Arthur (Edward Drummond), 1891–1975, English composer.

2. Tasker Howard, 1853–1930, U.S. general.

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bliss ¹ British  

/ blɪs /

noun

1. perfect happiness; serene joy

2. the ecstatic joy of heaven

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Bliss ² British  

/ blɪs /

noun

1. Sir Arthur . 1891–1975, British composer; Master of the Queen's Musick (1953–75). His works include the Colour Symphony (1922), film and ballet music, and a cello concerto (1970)

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Synonym Usage

See happiness.

Other Word Forms

• blissless
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of bliss

First recorded before 1000; Middle English blisse, Old English bliss, blīths, equivalent to blīthe blithe + -s suffix

Explanation

Bliss is a state of complete happiness or joy. Marriage is often associated with this joyous feeling: people who are married and still in love are described as living in wedded bliss. Another common association is heaven or paradise, as in eternal bliss. Bliss is from Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss, blīths. The final -s in this Old English word is actually a suffix and the word itself is related to blīthe, the source of modern English blithe, which means happy.

Example Sentences

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That looming first common, boring day after a few weeks of new bliss is gone.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

He described the past two decades without settlers around Jenin as "bliss".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

There’s a shot of Banderas biting into a tomato that’s pure bliss for him and us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Meet the car owners disabling alarms and reconfiguring dashboards in search of low-tech bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

I think again and again of a story we read last year by Ursula Le Guin about a utopian city whose bliss can only exist because of its one horrifying atrocity.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

“You want to send lots and lots of data?” said Daniel Bliss, an engineering professor at Arizona State University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Hay Fever is one of Coward's most enduring comedies, and follows the self-centred Bliss family - retired actress Judith, her novelist husband David, and their children Sorel and Simon.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

Season 4 united Tiffany Pennywell and Brett Brown; their marriage is still going strong, as are those of fellow participants Chelsea Griffin and Kwame Appiah, and Bliss Poureetezadi and Zack Goytowski.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Before all these warehouse purchases, there was a turn toward facilities like Camp East Montana, which is this enormous facility that was stood up just last August within Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026

Bliss sent for him on July 2 immediately after the shooting.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Related Words

• euphoria
• happiness
• joy
• paradise