1. Highly favoured or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
   "the blessed assurance of a steady income"; "our blessed land";
   - blest
    
2. Characterized by happiness and good fortune
   "a blessed time"
    
3. (Roman Catholicism) proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
   "On Sunday, the martyr will be blessed by the Vatican";
   - beatified
    
4. Enjoying the bliss of heaven
   "In religious texts, the blessed souls were described as dwelling in eternal peace"
    
5. [informal] Expletive used informally as an intensifier
   "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing";
   - blasted [informal], blame [N. Amer, informal], blamed [informal], damn [informal], damned [informal], darned [informal], deuced [informal], goddam [informal], goddamn [informal], goddamned [informal], infernal [informal], dashed [Brit, informal], doggone [N. Amer, informal]

1. Worthy of worship
   "the Blessed Trinity"

1. Give a benediction to
   "The dying man blessed his son"
    
2. Confer prosperity or happiness on
   "May fortune bless your endeavours"; "The rain blessed the drought-stricken farmland"
    
3. Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
   "The priest blessed the congregation before dismissing them";
   - sign
    
4. Render holy by means of religious rites
   "The priest blessed the new church building";
   - consecrate, hallow, sanctify

See also: cursed, curst [archaic], fortunate, golden, happy, holy, saved

Type of: arouse, bestow, bring up, call down, call forth, confer, conjure, conjure up, declare, evoke, gesticulate, gesture, invoke, motion, pronounce, raise

Antonym: anathemize, cursed, unhallow

Encyclopedia: Blessed, Brian