What's the difference between blessed and blissful?

Blessed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bless
  • (a.) Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
  • (a.) Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
  • (a.) Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
  • (a.) Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
  • (a.) Beatified.
  • (a.) Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (2) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (3) I often remind him that after a test or a difficulty, blessings arrive.
  • (4) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
  • (5) Unable to tap international markets, with its banks forced to rely on limited emergency funding provided on a week-by-week basis with the blessing of the ECB, it is fast running out of cash.
  • (6) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
  • (7) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
  • (8) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (9) May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.
  • (10) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
  • (11) He’s gifted, a blessed young man with incredible hand speed and power.
  • (12) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
  • (13) He often claimed that God had blessed him with the gift of the delayed hangover, one that kicked in only when he had done his day's work.
  • (14) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
  • (15) Rate of progression of dementia was determined in 77 patients by repeated administration of the Blessed Dementia Scale (BDS).
  • (16) For whatever reason, the team is not gelling, despite substantial financial backing in the summer and the dressing room being blessed with a huge amount of quality.
  • (17) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
  • (18) Meena Raman of the Malaysia-based Third World Network told IPS: "Given the stance of the United States thus far in the Rio+20 negotiations, and the position they have taken in the climate change negotiations in Durban, it may perhaps be a blessing that President Obama is not coming to Rio."
  • (19) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
  • (20) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.

Blissful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The month was bliss for the residents, but once the road reopened the traffic worsened with a corresponding effect on the quality of air.
  • (2) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
  • (3) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
  • (4) She told the audience: “Today, of course, for those of you who have been blissfully off of Twitter, the House of Representatives jammed through a bill that really very few members of Congress, I think, had read.
  • (5) Your blissfully suspended disbelief comes crashing back down to marketing-strategised reality.
  • (6) Their psychoses can be classified as benefaction or blissfulness psychoses.
  • (7) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
  • (8) I think some would almost rather live in blissful ignorance for now."
  • (9) There was even a genuinely moving soft metal version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung by the entire stadium, the night transformed suddenly into a huge blissfully teary family wedding.
  • (10) 'We built a piece of the red planet in California' SC Everybody wanted to do some blissful tropical island planet, but nobody wanted it to look like a standard blissful tropical environment we're familiar with here on Earth, because that doesn't feel like you're going any place special, it just feels like vacation.
  • (11) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
  • (12) Consequently, BLISS will be a useful screening tool during the rehabilitation selection process.
  • (13) The right has spent almost every moment of the last six years painting leftists as people gazing in blissful awe at Obama.
  • (14) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
  • (15) Wordsworth's French revolution paen, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
  • (16) The results indicate a high degree of accuracy compared with calculations performed by Bliss.
  • (17) He is blissfully oblivious to both the biological challenges and the political ramifications of his question.
  • (18) If that makes you mad or perplexed, might I recommend downloading Vine , following DeStorm Power , and forgetting your troubles for seven blissful seconds.
  • (19) The Chihuahua desert city had grown rapidly over the years, because of the Fort Bliss military base and migration from Mexico.
  • (20) Chief constable Andy Bliss, national policing lead for drugs, said: "Enforcement of the qat ban will be firm but proportionate."