Antonyms for blessing
ˈblɛs ɪŋbless·ing

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1. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

2. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

3. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

4. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

5. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

6. blessingnoun

   We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.

   Antonyms:
   curse

7. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

8. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

9. blessingnoun

   Antonyms:
   curse

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1. blessing

   Mercy is the exercise of less severity than one deserves, or in a more extended sense, the granting of kindness or favor beyond what one may rightly claim. Grace is favor, kindness, or blessing shown to the undeserving; forgiveness, mercy, and pardon are exercised toward the ill-deserving. Pardon remits the outward penalty which the offender deserves; forgiveness dismisses resentment or displeasure from the heart of the one offended; mercy seeks the highest possible good of the offender. There may be mercy without pardon, as in the mitigation of sentence, or in all possible alleviation of necessary severity; there may be cases where pardon would not be mercy, since it would encourage to repetition of the offense, from which timely punishment might have saved. Mercy is also used in the wider sense of refraining from harshness or cruelty toward those who are in one's power without fault of their own; as, they besought the robber to have mercy. Clemency is a colder word than mercy, and without its religious associations, signifying mildness and moderation in the use of power where severity would have legal or military, rather than moral sanction; it often denotes a habitual mildness of disposition on the part of the powerful, and is matter rather of good nature or policy than of principle. Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror. Compare PITY.

   Antonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Preposition:
   The mercy of God to or toward sinners; have mercy on or upon one.

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1. blessing

   Antonyms:
   impoverishment, deprivation, bereavement, malediction, thanklessness, obliviousness, catastrophe, disaster, calamity, detriment, curse, damn

   Synonyms:
   felicitation, benediction, endowment, donation, gift, gratitude, thankfulness, thanks, benefit

Matched Categories

1. • Good Fortune
   • Prayer
   • Support

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blessing, approval, approvingnoun

   the formal act of approving

   "he gave the project his blessing"; "his decision merited the approval of any sensible person"

   Synonyms:
   approval, approving, thanksgiving, commendation, benediction, favourable reception, favorable reception, grace, boon

2. blessing, boonnoun

   a desirable state

   "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"

   Synonyms:
   benediction, grace, thanksgiving, approval, boon, approving

3. grace, blessing, thanksgivingnoun

   a short prayer of thanks before a meal

   "their youngest son said grace"

   Synonyms:
   approval, gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, boon, free grace, grace, benediction, approving, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

4. benediction, blessingnoun

   a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection

   Synonyms:
   benediction, approving, grace, thanksgiving, approval, boon

5. blessing, benedictionnoun

   the act of praying for divine protection

   Synonyms:
   benediction, grace, thanksgiving, approval, boon, approving

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1. blessingnoun

   Synonyms:
   benediction, benison, beatitude, boon, god-send

How to use blessing in a sentence?

1. Sam Ehlinger:

   I dont know if this is a dream, to tell you the truth, regardless of what happens, to be in this situation at the University of Texas is what I dreamed of. Its a blessing within itself.

2. King Brockett -LRB- 1907 -RRB-:

   The first thing was that I asked God to give me a lot of strength to be able to pitch there because I knew I was going to get nervous, ‘Thank God he heard my voice and gave me the blessing not to get nervous. I was totally relaxed and confident in myself.

3. R. D. Hitchcock:

   Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

5. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

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