1
: full of, marked by, or causing complete happiness
a blissful marriage
2
: happily benighted
blissful ignorance
blissfulness
noun
Examples of blissful in a Sentence
At first, their time together was blissful.
He sat there in a blissful state of comfort.
a blissful setting for a wedding
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Hard not to kick back, relax, and drink in these blissful surroundings.
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Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
Sly and the Family Stone released 10 studio albums between 1967 and 1982, with many songs injected with passionate social consciousness and others existing as blissful foot-stompers.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Keeping a steady clip and clocking in at a blissful running time, Hall and Gandersman discover two of their movie’s best moment in car scenes.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 June 2025
Tomorrow, my brother will be busy bailing out his flooded basement, the result of the last storm, while my wife will be frying chicken anticipating another blissful day at the beach.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
Sly and the Family Stone released 10 studio albums between 1967 and 1982, with many songs injected with passionate social consciousness and others existing as blissful foot-stompers.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Keeping a steady clip and clocking in at a blissful running time, Hall and Gandersman discover two of their movie’s best moment in car scenes.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 June 2025
Tomorrow, my brother will be busy bailing out his flooded basement, the result of the last storm, while my wife will be frying chicken anticipating another blissful day at the beach.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for blissful
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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