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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Stomach sleepers toe a fine line between a blissful night's rest and waking up with neck, shoulder, or back pain the following day.
—Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
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—Alessandra Amodio, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
In that blissful blip between Christmas and New Year’s, things tend to finally slow the hell down.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
Stomach sleepers toe a fine line between a blissful night's rest and waking up with neck, shoulder, or back pain the following day.
—Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
That mindful goodness, paired with the cool breeze through my open-air treatment room and the sound of the water around me, created the most blissful experience that just melted away my stressful travel day.
—Alessandra Amodio, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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