blessed
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,946 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,247 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) also: blest our blessed landthe blessed assurance of a steady income
- worthy of worship the Blessed Trinity
- expletives used informally as intensifiers also: blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned he's a blasted idiotit's a blamed shame
- Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration also: beatified
- enjoying the bliss of heaven
- characterized by happiness and good fortune a blessed time
blessed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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For behold, from henceforth: all generations shall call me blessed.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Home--that blessed word which should send a thrill to the heart of any bride.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Thank God that so hath blessed thee, And sit down, Robin, and rest thee.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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Tom blessed us starboard and d—d us larboard, Right down from rail to the streak o’ the garboard.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Those waves of forests primeval were his, and the green spray of them was tossed into cloudland to catch the blessed rain.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1