1
: full of, marked by, or causing complete happiness
a blissful marriage
2
: happily benighted
blissful ignorance
blissfulness
noun
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Examples of blissful in a Sentence
At first, their time together was blissful.
He sat there in a blissful state of comfort.
a blissful setting for a wedding
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Baies is a blissful mix of black currant leaves and fresh roses.
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Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
And even more blissful that my teacher hadn’t been able to tell that my thoughts were drifting.
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For a few blissful hours, live music can transport us back to a time before divisiveness, deepfakes, and endless cat memes dominated our feeds.
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However, most of the guests were children who had already been having a pretty blissful afternoon.
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Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
And even more blissful that my teacher hadn’t been able to tell that my thoughts were drifting.
—Prasad Ramamurthy, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
For a few blissful hours, live music can transport us back to a time before divisiveness, deepfakes, and endless cat memes dominated our feeds.
—David Hochman, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
However, most of the guests were children who had already been having a pretty blissful afternoon.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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