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

Many travelers already arrive in celebration mode for weddings or milestone birthdays, but the shows, restaurants and nightlife bring another level of bliss. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026

There’s a shot of Banderas biting into a tomato that’s pure bliss for him and us. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Highs and lows based on material belief, the limited thinking of the human mind, slow our path to the bliss of knowing God and His creation, where all real satisfaction is found. — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2026