Synonyms of bliss

bliss

noun

ˈblis 

1

as in paradise

a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death

the godly life she has lived will surely lead to infinite bliss after death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paradise
• sky
• heaven
• nirvana
• glory
• Zion
• on high
• empyrean
• New Jerusalem
• kingdom come
• Elysium
• above
• elysian fields
• promised land
• Valhalla
• Beulah
• happy hunting ground
• afterworld
• afterlife
• hereafter
• otherworld

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hell
• perdition
• inferno
• limbo
• purgatory
• Pandemonium
• Gehenna
• abyss
• underworld
• pit
• netherworld
• hades

2

as in joy

a feeling or state of well-being and contentment

the enviable bliss of a happily married couple

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joy
• happiness
• blissfulness
• enjoyment
• beatitude
• pleasure
• joyfulness
• blessedness
• ecstasy
• gladness
• satisfaction
• felicity
• delight
• elation
• warm fuzzies
• exultation
• euphoria
• rapture
• nirvana
• exhilaration
• intoxication
• glee
• comfort
• ravishment
• high
• paradise
• mirth
• cheerfulness
• exuberance
• jubilation
• joyousness
• triumph
• gratification
• glory
• transport
• heaven
• seventh heaven
• contentedness
• jollity
• elatedness
• delectation
• jubilance
• lightheartedness
• rapturousness
• merriness
• gleefulness
• gaiety
• content
• cheer
• jocundity
• gladsomeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misery
• sadness
• unhappiness
• calamity
• sorrow
• wretchedness
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• desolation
• melancholy
• sufferance
• gloom
• depression
• blues
• dejection
• despondency
• hell
• ill-being
• joylessness
• gloominess
• doldrums
• purgatory
• woefulness
• cheerlessness
• mournfulness
• desolateness
• plaintiveness
• disheartenment
• downheartedness
• Gehenna
• dispiritedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bliss

And then there are amateur collectors like me, who might not know ironstone from porcelain, but whose last day on earth could be spent touching old objects in ignorant bliss. — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2026

The mild formula fades hyperpigmentation, acne scarring, and blemishes with citric bliss. — Rosa Jisoo Pyo, Vogue, 31 May 2026

Land, a new novel by the Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell, showcases her genius for infusing painful stories with flashes of pure bliss, Hillary Kelly writes. — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026

That much was clear to the thousands and thousands of fans who packed the streets outside of Madison Square Garden and throughout the five boroughs on Saturday night, celebrating in glorious, delirious bliss after the Knicks won Game 5 of the NBA Finals, 94-90, in San Antonio. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026