bliss

noun

1. 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

verb

1. 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.

Forms

plural

blisses

past tense

blissed

past participle

blissed

present participle

blissing

third person singular

blisses