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blessed

— adjective highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) our blessed land the blessed assurance of a steady income — adjective (= blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal) 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 an infernal nuisance — adjective enjoying the bliss of heaven — adjective characterized by happiness and good fortune a blessed time — adjective Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration

Blessed

— adjective worthy of worship the Blessed Trinity

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are Verb

— Are is the present tense, second person form of the verb be. Hello John, how are you? We are all happy. Are we there yet? John and Mary are playing. Are you all hungry?

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the Determiner

— Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist. Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book." — Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special. Are you the John Smith that I went to school with? — Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned The poor are always with us. — Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs. You are the best.

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sick Adjective

— If a person, animal, or plant is sick, it has a disease and is not healthy. I'm sorry, I'm too sick to go to work today. If you're sick, you should go and see a doctor. — A way of saying something is bad. (Could mean one or both of the following.) — # If something is sick it makes you feel like vomiting. Usually this is not literal, but just means very bad. — #: Oh sick! There is dog shit all over everything. — # Sick can mean similar to person who is mentally ill (crazy), as an insult. This can also mean something bad that a crazy person might do. — #: Killing children is just plain sick. — #: That guy is really sick in the head. — You say this about something that is cool. That is, something you like or see as very good. That song is sick!

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