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BLISSFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely happy and contented
Example:
in blissful ignorance
Classified under:
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Derivation:
blissfulness (a state of extreme happiness)
Context examples:
How many a summer hour have I known to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He smiled; and I thought his smile was such as a sultan might, in a blissful and fond moment, bestow on a slave his gold and gems had enriched: I crushed his hand, which was ever hunting mine, vigorously, and thrust it back to him red with the passionate pressure.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And that night when she went to her room after a blissful evening of family counsels, hopes, and plans, her heart was so full of happiness that she could only calm it by kneeling beside the empty bed always near her own, and thinking tender thoughts of Beth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I only know that I swim about in space, with a blue angel, in a state of blissful delirium, until I find myself alone with her in a little room, resting on a sofa.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I took a plain but clean and light summer dress from my drawer and put it on: it seemed no attire had ever so well become me, because none had I ever worn in so blissful a mood.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"No, I'm sure I can't. How much has happened since I said that! It seems a year ago," answered Meg, who was in a blissful dream lifted far above such common things as bread and butter.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Here, among pillows enough for six, I soon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancient Rome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches, rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream of thunder and the gods.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She did not think herself a genius by any means, but when the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
