bliss
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //blɪs//
Perfect happiness.
Substantiv
- 1
Perfect happiness.
The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?
When they insist on knowing my bliss I tell them this When they want to know what the reason is I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why
Herkunft
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Verb
- 1
To feel bliss; (by extension) to reach a state of bliss or ecstasy.
I'm still blissing out after our date. I had a great time.
Formen
- Plural
- blisses
- Präteritum
- blissed
- Partizip II
- blissed
- Partizip I
- blissing
- 3. Person Singular
- blisses