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. Mark Schultz:

   Dave would have wanted me to be happy, we both spoke of that when he was alive, you know, that we wanted each other to always live rich and full lives, you know, together or apart but I always know I had his blessing.

2. Rami Ramadan:

   We can’t be happier, we made it through the hard time. Now the girls are finally here, they’re healthy, they’re out of the NICU, the family’s united. It’s a blessing.

3. David Pilgrim:

   I am blessed to travel this country to talk about racism. Yes, its a blessing, but in every place someone says, ‘If you stop talking about race, racism will go away.’ That doesn’t even make stupid sense. The reality is that we talk about race all the time, in corridors, in offices, at ballgames, but we do not often talk about it in places where our ideas are challenged.”

4. Sean Feucht:

   Nobody was angry, we were just like, We want to worship. We want to declare a blessing over the state of California. When they persecute and discriminate, we bless. We want to release hope and we want to unify the sound of Bethel Church.

5. Deon Hill:

   I'm 100 percent normal, and it's really a blessing.

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