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# bliss

«bliss» in Mova's school dictionary: **Perfect happiness and calm joy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bliss — uncountable; no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Perfect happiness and calm joy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#m1)

2) Something that gives you great pleasure («This bath is bliss!»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#m2)

3) (church) In Christian writing, the perfect happiness of heaven that Christians believe God gives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

A feeling word used in stories, poems and everyday talk to show someone is completely happy and relaxed. Phrases: «pure bliss», «sheer bliss», «wedded bliss», «ignorance is bliss» (it can feel easier not to know something bad). In The Wind in the Willows the Mole feels bliss on his first day on the river.

### examples

- Lying on the warm sand was pure bliss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x1)
- After the long walk, a cup of hot chocolate was bliss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x2)
- The Mole sat in the boat in a state of bliss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x3)
- A day with no homework is bliss! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x4)
- The baby slept in bliss after her feed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x5)
- «Ignorance is bliss,» said Dad when I asked about the bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x6)
- The hymn spoke of the bliss of heaven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x7)
- “George, George!” she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: say «bliss», not «a bliss» or «blisses». Adjective: blissful; adverb: blissfully («blissfully unaware» = happily not knowing). Do not mix up with «blister» (a sore bubble on the skin).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bliss» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bliss/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.