BLISSFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blissful mean? 

• BLISSFUL (adjective)
  The adjective BLISSFUL has 1 sense:

1. completely happy and contented

  Familiarity information: BLISSFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLISSFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completely happy and contented

Context example:

in blissful ignorance

Similar:

happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)

Derivation:

blissfulness (a state of extreme happiness)

 Context examples 

I have set all this down, in my present blissful chapter, because here it comes into its natural place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One can imagine what answer he made, how he received his present, and what a blissful state of things ensued.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He knew that he was doing the right thing by holding on, and there came to him certain blissful thrills of satisfaction.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Oh, the blissful rest of last night! How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His pale, wishy-washy eyes were swimming like lazy summer seas, though what blissful visions they beheld were beyond my imagination.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was in that rare and blissful state wherein a man sees his dreams stalk out from the crannies of fantasy and become fact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And you will not dream of separation and sorrow to-night; but of happy love and blissful union.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That I was lost in blissful delirium.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats safe at anchor in a quiet harbor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)