Felicitous vs Blissful - What's the difference?
felicitous | blissful | Related terms |
fitting; happening at the right time.
Working out well.
(linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
* 1738 , , "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26,
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 27,
* 1983 , James Hijiya, "American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 127, no. 5., page 349,
(obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
* c1387 , , "The Prioress' Tale," in The Canterbury Tales ,
Felicitous is a related term of blissful.
As adjectives the difference between felicitous and blissful
is that felicitous is fitting; happening at the right time while blissful is extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.felicitous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous .
Synonyms
* (happening at the right time) appropriate, opportune, apt * (working out well) fortunate, opportuneAntonyms
* unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammaticalDerived terms
* felicitously * felicitousness * unfelicitousblissful
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Alternative forms
* blissfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
- And call Britannia's glories back to view;
- She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
- New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
- Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
- Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
- To worship aye