Blessed vs. Grateful — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blessed and Grateful
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Blessed
Made holy; consecrated
The Blessed Sacrament
Grateful
Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received
I'm grateful to you for all your help
She gave him a grateful smile
Blessed
Used in mild expressions of annoyance or exasperation
He'll want to go and see his blessed allotment
Grateful
Appreciative of benefits received; thankful
I'm grateful for your help.
Blessed
Worthy of worship; holy.
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Grateful
Expressing gratitude
A grateful look.
Blessed
Held in veneration; revered.
Grateful
Affording pleasure or comfort; agreeable
Grateful relief from the hot sun.
Blessed
Blessed Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified.
Grateful
Appreciative; thankful.
I'm grateful that you helped me out.
I'm grateful to you for helping me out.
Blessed
Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment.
Grateful
(obsolete) Pleasing, welcome.
Blessed
Blessed Used as an intensive
I don't have a blessed dime.
Grateful
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
A grateful mindBy owing, owes not, but still pays.
Blessed
Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
Grateful
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.
Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine,And grateful clusters swell.
Blessed
(Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
Grateful
Feeling or showing gratitude;
A grateful heart
Grateful for the tree's shade
A thankful smile
Blessed
Held in veneration; revered.
Grateful
Affording comfort or pleasure;
The grateful warmth of the fire
Blessed
Worthy of worship; holy.
Blessed
Damned as an intensifier or vehement denial
Not one blessed person offered to help me out.
I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.
Blessed
Simple past tense and past participle of bless
Blessed
Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode,And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.
Blessed
Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
All generations shall call me blessed.
Towards England's blessed shore.
Blessed
Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
Blessed
Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
Reverenced like a blessed saint.
Cast out from God and blessed vision.
Blessed
Beatified.
Blessed
Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.
Blessed
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace);
Our blessed land
The blessed assurance of a steady income
Blessed
Worthy of worship;
The Blessed Trinity
Blessed
Expletives used informally as intensifiers;
He's a blasted idiot
It's a blamed shame
A blame cold winter
Not a blessed dime
I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing
He's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool
A deuced idiot
Tired or his everlasting whimpering
An infernal nuisance
Blessed
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
Blessed
Enjoying the bliss of heaven
Blessed
Characterized by happiness and good fortune;
A blessed time
Blessed
Having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination;
Blessed with a strong healthy body
A nation blessed with peace
A peace-blessed era
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