Haunted vs Blissful - What's the difference?
haunted | blissful |
Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
(haunt)
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 ,
As adjectives the difference between blissful and haunted
is that blissful is extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss while haunted is of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.As a verb haunted is
past tense of haunt.haunted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
- a haunted expression
Verb
(head)- According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.
Anagrams
*blissful
English
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