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Blessed vs Worshipped - What's the difference?

blessed | worshipped | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between blessed and worshipped

is that blessed is past tense of bless while worshipped is past tense of worship.

As an adjective blessed

is having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

As a proper noun Blessed

is {{surname|lang=en}.

blessed

English

Alternative forms

* (poetic), blest (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
  • * 1611 , King James Bible , Matthew 5:5
    • Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
  • In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
  • Held in veneration; revered.
  • Worthy of worship; holy.
  • (informal) An intensifier; damned.
    • Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

    Synonyms

    * (revered) revered, venerated, worship(p)ed * (holy) hallowed, holy, sacred

    Antonyms

    * condemned, cursed, damned * (revered) contemned, despised, scorned * (holy) profane, unhallowed, unholy

    Derived terms

    * blessed event

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bless)

    • Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    worshipped

    English

    Alternative forms

    * worshiped

    Verb

    (head)
  • (British) (worship)

    • worship

    English

    (wikipedia worship)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
  • *:
    • I will be on horsbak said the knyght / thenne was Arthur wrothe and dressid his sheld toward hym with his swerd drawen / whan the knyght sawe that / he a lyghte / for hym thought no worship to haue a knyght at suche auaille he to be on horsbak and he on foot and so he alyght & dressid his sheld vnto Arthur
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
  • *:Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed.
  • The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
  • The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
  • *(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
  • *:The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
  • (by extension) The ardent love of a something.
  • An object of worship.
  • *(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • *:In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
  • Honour; respect; civil deference.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:of which great worth and worship may be won
  • *(Bible), (w) xiv. 10
  • *:Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

    • Derived terms

    * freedom of worship * Her Worship * His Worship * house of worship * place of worship * Worship * worshipability * worshipable * worshipful * Worshipful Master * worshipfully * worshipfulness * worshipped * worshipping * worshippingly * worshipworthy * Your Worship

    Synonyms

    * adoration * reverence * idolatry

    Verb

  • To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
  • * Shakespeare
    • God is to be worshipped .
  • * Milton
    • When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
  • To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
  • * Carew
    • With bended knees I daily worship her.
  • To participate in religious ceremonies.
    • We worship at the church down the road.