bless

Other forms of bless

past tense or participle

blest

present participle

blessing·

third person

blesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bless

What does bless mean?

bless means "give a benediction to". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bless?

bless has 1 syllable: bless. In IPA it is /ˈblɛs/.

What is another word for bless?

Close synonyms include sign, consecrate, hallow, sanctify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of bless?

The recorded antonyms are curse.

Is bless a common word?

bless is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bless?

1 word rhymes with bless. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.