blissful

adj

Etymology

From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.

  1. inherited from blisful

Definitions

  1. Extremely happy

    Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.

    • In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view;
    • She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
    • New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
  2. Blessed

    Blessed; glorified.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blissful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01blissful02experiencing03experience04impressions05impression06depression07happy

A definitional loop anchored at blissful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at blissful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA