"blissful" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-blissful.wav [US] Forms: more blissful [comparative], most blissful [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blisful}} Middle English blisful, {{m|enm|bislvol}} bislvol, {{suffix|en|bliss|ful|pos=adjective}} bliss + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} blissful (comparative more blissful, superlative most blissful)
  1. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss. Categories (topical): Happiness Translations (full of joy): блажен (blažen) (Bulgarian), blažený (Czech), beata (Esperanto), autuas (Finnish), bienheureux (French), feliz (Galician), glückselig (German), beglückt (German), жаргалтай (žargaltaj) (Mongolian), benurós (Occitan), benaürat (Occitan), benastrat (Occitan), benesit (Occitan), سرخوش (sarhoş) (Ottoman Turkish), błogi (Polish), блаже́нный (blažénnyj) (Russian), счастли́вый (sčastlívyj) (Russian), dichoso (Spanish), feliz (Spanish), maravilloso (Spanish), sākre (Tocharian B)
    Sense id: en-blissful-en-adj-IDlSjDmR Disambiguation of Happiness: 92 8 Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 62 38 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'full of joy': 98 2
  2. (obsolete) Blessed; glorified. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-blissful-en-adj-xROlodMr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: blissfully, blissfulness Related terms: pleasure, thrill

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "beglückt"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "žargaltaj",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "жаргалтай"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "benurós"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "benaürat"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "benastrat"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "benesit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "sarhoş",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "سرخوش"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "błogi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blažénnyj",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "блаже́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sčastlívyj",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "счастли́вый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "dichoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "feliz"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "maravilloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "full of joy",
      "word": "sākre"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blissful"
}

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