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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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.
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Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Guests can enjoy cuddling by the fire, reading great books together, settling in for blissful relaxation, or enjoying many of the amenities at these three coastal resorts.
—Robin Raven, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
For five and a half blissful minutes, none of that mattered.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Murphy is now closing in on 200 senior appearances for Newcastle which isn’t bad, all things considered, and the last blissful month has only served to reinforce an old truism that the best teams are not always formed of the players who glitter most.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Guests can enjoy cuddling by the fire, reading great books together, settling in for blissful relaxation, or enjoying many of the amenities at these three coastal resorts.
—Robin Raven, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
For five and a half blissful minutes, none of that mattered.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Murphy is now closing in on 200 senior appearances for Newcastle which isn’t bad, all things considered, and the last blissful month has only served to reinforce an old truism that the best teams are not always formed of the players who glitter most.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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