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Synonyms for blessing
ˈblɛs ɪŋbless·ing

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Wiktionary4.0 / 2 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  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.

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

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blessingnoun

    Synonyms:
    benediction, benison, invocation of happiness

  2. blessingnoun

    Synonyms:
    good, benefit, advantage, profit, gain, boon, service

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blessingnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "blessing":

    boon, godsend, derrick, baraka, holiness

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#12537compassion
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#15279kindness
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#42957commendation
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#44359benevolence
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#61851baraka
#62645benediction
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#88321thankfulness
#155933mildness
#243923lenity
#299128benignity

How to use blessing in a sentence?

  1. Trey Louis:

    What we go through every day because of what happened is terrible. There is light, there is positivity. You just have to go chase it. Santa Fe, I’m not stopping. I got all the motivation behind me. I’ve got all of you guys behind me, what a blessing this really is.

  2. Alex Trebek:

    I kind of want to reach the best I can, which I know is certainly not as good as some other people who have been on this show, but I'm certainly going to try my best, and try to limit my mistakes and maximize my winnings. Just keep it rolling as long as it can -- because it's such a blessing.

  3. Thomas Paine:

    Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  4. Nichole Schmidt:

    Even though that police video was hard to watch, I think it was a blessing to see that she's a real human being and she was in pain.

  5. Shah Asad Rizvi:

    Footsteps find a reason to exist as they imitate the winds, moving with the intensity of a hurricane when arrives the blessing of dance


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