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say it: blest
blessed is an adjective meaning "highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)". It is pronounced /ˈblɛst/ — blest. It carries 6 recorded senses.
expletives used informally as intensifiers
“he's a blasted idiot”
“it's a blamed shame”
“a blame cold winter”
“not a blessed dime”
“I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing”
“he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”
“a deuced idiot”
“an infernal nuisance”
enjoying the bliss of heaven
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blessed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.