- 2. Delight, gladden, make happy, beatify.
- 3. Wish happiness to, thank.
- 4. Glorify, exalt, celebrate, magnify, praise, extol, give thanks to, adore, gratefully adore.
Blessed, a.
- 1. Happy, beatified, blissful.
- 2. Holy, hallowed, sacred.
Blessedness, n. Bliss, blissfulness, happiness, felicity, beatitude, joy.
Blessing, n.
- 1. Benediction, benison, invocation of happiness.
- 2. Good, benefit, advantage, profit, gain, boon, service.
- 3. Glory, honor, praise, thanksgiving, gratitude.
Blight, n. Pestilence (among plants), mildew, blast, withering.
Blight, v. a.
- 1. Blast, wither, shrivel, kill, destroy, taint with mildew, cause to decay.
- 2. Disappoint, frustrate, blast, destroy, crush, annihilate, annul, bring to naught.
Blind, a.
- 1. Sightless, destitute of vision, eyeless.
- 2. Ignorant, undiscerning, unenlightened, benighted, without insight, injudicious, incapable of judging.
- 3. Concealed, hidden, remote, obscure, dim, unlucid, involved, intricate, labyrinthine, confused, mazy,
dark, private.
- 4. Indiscriminate, heedless, careless, thoughtless, inconsiderate, headlong, rash.
- 5. Closed, shut, issueless, without exit, leading nowhere.