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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The end of the film depicts Smith's character's blissful wedding to Mendes', meaning the choices for a Hitch 2 jumping-off point are limitless.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Beach Waves Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2004
Barefoot and blissful, Crawford's laissez-faire loose waves complement her casual beachside wedding.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
But that blissful image has been ruptured in recent days as parts of Los Angeles were engulfed in flames, reducing homes and businesses across the sprawling metropolis to smoldering heaps of ash and rubble, most calamitously in the Pacific Palisades and the community of Altadena.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Beach Waves Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2004
Barefoot and blissful, Crawford's laissez-faire loose waves complement her casual beachside wedding.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
But that blissful image has been ruptured in recent days as parts of Los Angeles were engulfed in flames, reducing homes and businesses across the sprawling metropolis to smoldering heaps of ash and rubble, most calamitously in the Pacific Palisades and the community of Altadena.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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