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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Adolescents tend to operate in a blissful state of oblivion around the aesthetic curation of a home, but Adam Sternberg wasn’t like most children.
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Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2025
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Robbie’s practical version of that blissful beach is a remote quarry near his rural home.
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Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2025
Colorful Mérida has no beaches of its own, but with the blissful town of Celestún just an hour and a half away, most travelers won't mind.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
Robbie’s practical version of that blissful beach is a remote quarry near his rural home.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Put the new QuietComforts in your ears and the rest of the world simply falls into blissful silence.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Blissful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blissful. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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