blissful
Americanadjective
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full of, enjoying, or giving bliss, or sublime happiness.
Recalling their blissful few years together, he knew he would never be as happy with anyone else.
Heroes in ancient Greece could expect a blissful afterlife in the Elysian Fields.
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Often Facetious. not troubled by any hint of discomfort or concern.
From your free-flowing “thought piece,” I see that the finer points of punctuation, spelling, and grammar do not intrude on your sense of blissful ease.
adjective
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serenely joyful or glad
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unawareness or inexperience of something unpleasant
Other Word Forms
- blissfully adverb
- blissfulness noun
- unblissful adjective
- unblissfulness noun
Etymology
Origin of blissful
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; bliss + -ful; replacing Old English blissig (equivalent to bliss + -y 1 ( def. ) )
Explanation
If you're blissful, you're happy and at peace. You can never have too many blissful moments. If you're feeling blissful, then you're lucky. This is a word for total contentment and major happiness, along with a kind of Zen-like peace. Good spa treatments should be totally blissful. Getting an A in math or hitting a home run could make you feel blissful. A perfectly gooey piece of chocolate cake could be pretty blissful. A blissful moment is full of joy and relaxation. Sounds nice, doesn't it?
Vocabulary lists containing blissful
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Example Sentences
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My first visit to Lake Bled in Slovenia this month was blissful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Folan would often describe her early years of marriage and motherhood, in an idyllic white house in a tawny Connecticut suburb, as looking blissful on the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The experience gave him a "blissful" sense of safety.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
That’s where we’ll put everything that we have in us, that we’re holding onto that’s keeping us from living a blissful and peaceful life, and write it down and let it go.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
The Obscure Object and I met unawares, however, in blissful ignorance.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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