blithesome
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of blithesome
Explanation
To be blithesome is to be happy and without a care in the world. If you are feeling blithesome, you might want to skip or at least kick your heels up in the air. When you're blissfully happy and don't have a single worry, you're blithesome. If you're blithesome, you're feeling carefree and not weighed down by burdens or anxiety. If you take the some off the end of blithesome, it will still carry the same meaning.
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Example Sentences
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Then, with the clay that was left, he began to make an image of Bessie Blithesome herself.
From Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Yet, while so many poor children were clamoring for his toys he could not bear to give one to them to Bessie Blithesome, who had so much already to make her happy.
From Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Compare the following lyric on the same subject by James Hogg: Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o’er moorland and lea!
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary; 5.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
To a Skylark" are well known to all readers of poetry, while every schoolboy will recall Hogg's poem, beginning:— "Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea!
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John
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