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blithesome

adj
/ˈblaɪθsəm/

Etymology

From blithe + -some.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻ — “shiny; white”
  2. derived from *bʰlī-✻ — “fine; light; pleasant”
  3. inherited from *blīþiz✻ — “friendly; gentle, mild; pleasing”
  4. inherited from *blīþī✻
  5. inherited from blīþe — “happy, gentle”
  6. inherited from blithe — “glad, happy, joyful; causing joy, joyous; gentle, mild; gracious, merciful; bright, shining; beautiful, fair”
  7. suffixed as blithesome — “blithe + some”

Definitions

  1. Happy or spriteful

    Happy or spriteful; carefree.

    • Fare not the birds well, as from spray to spray / Blithsome they bound—yet find their simple food / Scattered abundantly?
    • She made herself as blithesome as a lark, and at last she offered him two hundred dollars if he would sell her the whistle, and tell her how she should manage to get it safe home with her.
    • [']Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!' 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA