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bliss
1[ blis ]
noun
- supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment:
wedded bliss.
Antonyms:
- Theology. the joy of heaven.
- heaven; paradise:
the road to eternal bliss.
- Archaic. a cause of great joy or happiness.
Bliss
2[ blis ]
noun
- Sir Arthur (Edward Drummond), 1891–1975, English composer.
- ղ· [tas, -ker] Howard, 1853–1930, U.S. general.
bliss
1/ ɪ /
noun
- perfect happiness; serene joy
- the ecstatic joy of heaven
Bliss
2/ ɪ /
noun
- BlissSir Arthur18911975MBritishMUSIC: composer Sir Arthur . 1891–1975, British composer; Master of the Queen's Musick (1953–75). His works include the Colour Symphony (1922), film and ballet music, and a cello concerto (1970)
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- l adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bliss1
Idioms and Phrases
- bliss out, Slang.
- to experience bliss or euphoria:
Just give them some bean sprouts and a little tofu and they bliss out.
- to cause to become blissful or euphoric:
a recording guaranteed to bliss out every Mozart fan.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Then, I just flopped back down on my back and experienced this overwhelming feeling of absolute bliss,” Leier, an ethicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, told Salon in a phone interview.
It's not an ideal environment for domestic bliss to blossom - or good for Michael's street cred - but it does provide the scene for the 36-year-old actor's "most amazing" TV experience to date.
“In a glimpse of time, she had pure bliss, no one could take that from her or us.”
Previous generations didn’t have the chance to taste some version of the hermetic bliss millions of us were exposed to over the past five years.
“I was genuinely in such a state of bliss the whole time,” he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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