Majestic vs Blissful - What's the difference?
majestic | blissful |
Having qualities of splendor or royalty.
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 majestic and blissful
is that majestic is having qualities of splendor or royalty while blissful is extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.majestic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
- A man of such a feeble temper should
- So get the start of the majestic world,
- And bear the palm alone.
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