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発音

Adjective

• enPR: blĕsʹĭd, IPA: /ˈblɛsɪd/, /blɛst/
• 韻: -ɛsɪd
• ハイフネーション: bless‧ed

Verb

• enPR: blĕst, IPA: /blɛst/
• 韻: -ɛst
• ハイフネーション: blessed

形容詞

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

1. Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

   Antonyms: condemned, cursed, damned

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5:

     Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

2. (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
3. Held in veneration; revered.

   Synonyms: revered, venerated, worshipped, worshiped; see also Thesaurus:revered

   Antonyms: contemned, despised, scorned

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:

     ‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’

4. Worthy of worship; holy.

   Synonyms: hallowed, holy, sacred; see also Thesaurus:holy

   Antonyms: profane, unhallowed, unholy

5. Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.

   Synonyms: divine, elect, saved; departed, with God; see also Thesaurus:dead

   Antonyms: damned, godforsaken; above ground, alive and kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive

   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     I know—for Death, who comes for me
     From regions of the blest afar,
     Where there is nothing to deceive,
     Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]

6. (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

   Synonyms: blessed, cursed, infernal; see also Thesaurus:damned

   Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

   I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.

派生語

動詞

blessed

1. simple past and past participle of bless

アナグラム

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