blissful
[blis-fuh l]
- full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
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Origin of blissful
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Examples from the Web for blissfully
Contemporary Examples
These guests would have read about the marvels of a 22-floor hotel, blissfully unaware that it was, in fact, 23 floors tall.
The KGB Welcomes You to Estonia’s Hotel Viru. Please Mind the Hidden BugsNina Strochlic
July 31, 2014
Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure.
Blissfully, the pub has a ‘no music, no machines, no television and no mobile phones’ rule.
Oregonians suffer through them in anticipation of the blissfully sunny and temperate summer.
He or she is surrounded by others who are stationary, blissfully unaware of the dancer.
Historical Examples
On the contrary, hope with seraph wings fanned him blissfully.
Doctor Luttrell's First PatientRosa Nouchette Carey
And again, blissfully—'I can feel your heart beating—so fast, so fast.'
The Child of PleasureGabriele D'Annunzio
He was blissfully happy as he carried his stool across the lawn.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922Lucy Maud Montgomery
Of this fact, however, Mr. Hamlin was blissfully unconscious.
Trent's Trust and Other StoriesBret Harte
Nothing else mattered as long as this one thing was blissfully true.
VirginiaEllen Glasgow
blissful
- serenely joyful or glad
- blissful ignorance unawareness or inexperience of something unpleasant
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Word Origin and History for blissfully
blissful
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