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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After six losses in the semifinals, after falling in their lone title game appearance in 2004, thirty years of Dakota Ridge dreaming awoke to a blissful reality on Sunday morning.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
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—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Despite what critics have to say though, the couple seem to be in a blissful love bubble.
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Grand larceny notwithstanding, our five days in the city were otherwise uneventful, which is to say, completely blissful.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
The great majority of people who have NDEs describe the experience as blissful, more real than reality itself, and altogether outside of time.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Despite what critics have to say though, the couple seem to be in a blissful love bubble.
—Essence, 14 Nov. 2025
Grand larceny notwithstanding, our five days in the city were otherwise uneventful, which is to say, completely blissful.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Nov. 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 Dec. 2025.
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