Happy vs. Blessed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Happy and Blessed
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Happy
Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
They are happy to see me doing well
Melissa came in looking happy and excited
We're just happy that he's still alive
Blessed
Made holy; consecrated
The Blessed Sacrament
Happy
Fortunate and convenient
He had the happy knack of making people like him
Blessed
Used in mild expressions of annoyance or exasperation
He'll want to go and see his blessed allotment
Happy
Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random
They tended to be grenade-happy
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Blessed
Worthy of worship; holy.
Happy
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy
A happy child.
The happiest day of my life.
Blessed
Held in veneration; revered.
Happy
Cheerful; willing
Happy to help.
Blessed
Blessed Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified.
Happy
Characterized by good luck
A happy sequence of events.
Blessed
Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment.
Happy
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous
A happy turn of phrase.
Blessed
Blessed Used as an intensive
I don't have a blessed dime.
Happy
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination
Trigger-happy.
Blessed
Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
Happy
Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination
Money-happy.
Clothes-happy.
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.
Happy
Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
Music makes me feel happy.
Blessed
Held in veneration; revered.
Happy
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
Blessed
Worthy of worship; holy.
Happy
Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
Yes, I am happy with the decision.
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.
Happy
(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
A happy coincidence
Blessed
Simple past tense and past participle of bless
Happy
(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
Slaphappy, trigger-happy
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.
Happy
Dexterous, ready, skilful.
Blessed
Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
All generations shall call me blessed.
Towards England's blessed shore.
Happy
Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
Blessed
Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
Happy
A happy event, thing, person, etc.
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.
Happy
Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
Blessed
Beatified.
Happy
Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
Blessed
Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.
Happy
Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
Blessed
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace);
Our blessed land
The blessed assurance of a steady income
Happy
Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
The learned is happy Nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Blessed
Worthy of worship;
The Blessed Trinity
Happy
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
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
Happy
Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;
A happy smile
Spent many happy days on the beach
A happy marriage
Blessed
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
Happy
Experiencing pleasure or joy;
Happy you are here
Pleased with the good news
Blessed
Enjoying the bliss of heaven
Happy
Marked by good fortune;
A felicitous life
A happy outcome
Blessed
Characterized by happiness and good fortune;
A blessed time
Happy
Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;
Felt content with her lot
Quite happy to let things go on as they are
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
Happy
Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
Happy
Well expressed and to the point;
A happy turn of phrase
A few well-chosen words
A felicitous comment
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