Phrase guide

God bless

intj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Meaning 1

God bless you: a short prayer for the recipient, or a nonliteral well-wishing benediction or valediction culturally inspired by such prayer and thematically concordant with it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: God love (someone or something), Godspeed, good luck
  • Goodbye, and God bless!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: God love someone, Godspeed, good luck

Antonyms: goddamn, goddamnit

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