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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blissome en · ADJ

Etymology

From bliss + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characterised or marked by bliss; joyous
    • The Bull Moose is a wheesome bird / That flits from crag to crag, / And bleetsomely its voice, is heard / In many a blissome brag … 1912, The Commoner from Lincoln, Nebraska · Page 13
    • O! Blissome heart! / Two souls, one love / Are naught apart. 2007, S. P. Elledge, Semblances:
    • He hesitated, then soldiered on. “Your teeth are as white as—” “Louder!” “Your teeth are as white as a snow-covered mare. Your fingers are lissome, your kisses are blissome—'Blissome' isn't even a word!” “Irrelevant.” 2015, Ben Y. Faroe, The Dream World Collective:

Forms

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most blissome Degree=Sup lexicographic
more blissome Degree=Cmp lexicographic