bliss

  • 31bliss — noun perfect happiness. ↘a state of spiritual blessedness. verb (bliss out or be blissed out) informal be in a state of perfect happiness, oblivious to everything else. Origin OE blīths, bliss, of Gmc origin; related to blithe …

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  • 32bliss — noun (U) perfect happiness or enjoyment: wedded bliss | I didn t have to get up till 11 it was sheer bliss …

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  • 33bliss — noun 1) she gave a sigh of bliss Syn: joy, happiness, pleasure, delight, ecstasy, elation, rapture, euphoria See note at rapture Ant: misery 2) …

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  • 34bliss — /blɪs / (say blis) noun 1. lightness of heart; blitheness; gladness. 2. supreme happiness or delight. 3. Theology the joy of heaven. 4. a cause of great joy or happiness. –phrase 5. bliss out, Colloquial to go into a state of euphoria. {Middle… …

  • 35bliss — [OE] Despite its formal and semantic similarity, bliss has no connection with bless. It comes ultimately from Germanic *blīthiz ‘gentle, kind’, which is the source of English blithe ‘happy’ [OE]. The addition of the noun suffix * tjō produced the …

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  • 36bliss — noun Etymology: Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss; akin to Old English blīthe blithe Date: before 12th century 1. complete happiness 2. paradise, heaven …

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  • 37Bliss — noun a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by . Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL …

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  • 38bliss up — verb to experience bliss …

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  • 39BLISS — Basic Language for Implementation of System Software, entwickelt von W.A. Wulf, CMU ca. 1969 Expression Language mit Blockstrukturen, typenlos, mit Exception Handling, Coroutinen, Makrosystem und hochoptimierenden Compiler eine der ersten nicht… …

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  • 40bliss — f ( e/ a) bliss, merriment, happiness; kindness, friendship, grace, favor; cause of happiness [blíðe] …

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