blithesome

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈblaɪθsəm/
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/ˈblaɪθsəm/ · /ˈblaɪðsəm/

Definition of blithesome

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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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Etymology

From blithe + -some.

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