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blithesome

American  
[blahyth-suhm, blahyth-] / ˈblaɪð səm, ˈblaɪθ- /

adjective

  1. lighthearted; merry; cheerful.

    a blithesome nature.


blithesome British  
/ ˈblaɪðsəm /

adjective

  1. literary cheery; merry

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • blithesomely adverb
  • blithesomeness noun

Etymology

Origin of blithesome

First recorded in 1715–25; blithe + -some 1

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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Noah Brooks, a journalist, claimed that "few persons would recognize the hearty, blithesome, genial, and wiry Abraham Lincoln of earlier days" if they were to meet him again during his presidency.

From Salon • May 29, 2011

It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the seamed cliff of his forehead, his eyes lurk in shadowed caves, agile, probing, grave, blithesome and wise.

From Time Magazine Archive

His alchemy remints fables into wondrous blithesome magic.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not long since the old and the young were to be seen together in the blithesome dance and the merry play.

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