blissfully

English

Etymology

From Middle English blisfully, blisfulliche, blisvolliche, equivalent to blissful +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/

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Adverb

blissfully (comparative more blissfully, superlative most blissfully)

1. In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
   • 1834, Heman Humphrey, Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews:

     What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.

   • 2000, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home:

     I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.

Translations

in a joyful manner

• Czech: blaze (cs), blaženě
• Esperanto: beate
• Finnish: iloisesti (fi), onnellisesti
• French: bienheureusement (fr)
• Polish: błogo (pl)