Meaning of BLITHE
| Pronunciation: | | blIdh
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- [adj] carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart"
- [adj] lacking or showing a lack of due concern; "spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation"
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| | Synonyms: | | blithesome, cheerful, lighthearted, lightsome, unconcerned |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Blithe\ (bl[imac][th]), a. [AS. bl[=i][eth]e blithe,
kind; akin to Goth. blei[thorn]s kind, Icel. bl[=i][eth]r
mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, OHG.
bl[=i]di kind, blithe.]
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe
spirit.
The blithe sounds of festal music. --Prescott.
A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
--Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | beaming, blase, blissful, blithesome, boon, bright, bright and sunny, carefree, careless, casual, cheerful, cheery, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy, delighted, detached, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, happy, happy-go-lucky, heedless, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, indifferent, insouciant, irrepressible, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, lighthearted, light-hearted, lightsome, merry, mirthful, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, radiant, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, smiling, sparkling, sunny, uncaring, unconcerned, winsome |
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