highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
Used in a Sentence
blessed
How to use blessed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for blessed.
Editorial note
Scrum has a certification process and an ivory tower where you go and get blessed.
Examples12
Definitions6
Parts of speech1
Quick take
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of blessed gathered in one view.
worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for blessed.
adjective
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
See also: blest
adjective
worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
See also: Blessed
adjective
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
adjective
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
See also: beatified
adjective
enjoying the bliss of heaven
adjective
characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
Example sentences
Scrum has a certification process and an ivory tower where you go and get blessed.
A quick Mars timeline:Mars was formed around the time Earth was, but it was blessed with only 11% of Earth's mass and less than 40% of Earth's gravity field.
Theyll discover that getting their creation blessed as Java requires running the TCK/trademark gauntlet, which isnt groovy at all.
"Spoken like someone blessed to have been born a white heterosexual male in 21st century America.
I realized something huge about our jobs versus a lot of other jobs:I make more than $100/hr sitting in my pajamas, and I'm totally blessed.
"I guess after reading the author's post, we in this industry should really feel blessed and know we're living a life that most people on this planet would think is a dream.
Sure they are blessed with I guess several million customers a few days after launch, but many here have also been through early product issues, albeit with far fewer customers.
In which case I take back much of what I said, and we can go back to estimating how many people can actually be expected to access the blessed terminal where all of this can happen.
Not because I was lucky and not because I was blessed and not because I was in the right club, but because I had been making a contribution for years before I started demanding things.
You could get your implementation 'blessed' as being standard by coming to Connectathon and proving you could interact with all of the other approved implementations there.
Other hacking groups, now with the keys to the kingdom, begin working on hacking the PS3 to allow the installation of any software, not just officially released/signed/blessed releases.
Macroeconomics can, via some stretching of the perfect-markets hypothesis, be transformed into this almost-Calvinist cosmology, where the virtuous labourers will be blessed with an eventual retirement, and the sinful free-loaders will be punished with the sin of contentment.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use blessed in a sentence?
Scrum has a certification process and an ivory tower where you go and get blessed.
What does blessed mean?
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
What part of speech is blessed?
blessed is commonly used as adjective.