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Date "LIGHT-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Synonym: LIGHT-HEARTEDSynonym: Vivacious. (additional references) |
Crosswords: LIGHT-HEARTED |
| English words defined with "LIGHT-HEARTED": caper ♦ frolic ♦ gambol ♦ light-headed, light-heartedly, lightsomely ♦ play ♦ romp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LIGHT-HEARTED": Pippa Passes. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Take it easy!!! Tuna cross here. A light-hearted sign displaying fisherman's game fish of choice.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Disney's light-hearted ark, afloat in a wild world] / Covarrubias.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "LIGHT-HEARTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LIGHT-HEARTED" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 128 | 28,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "LIGHT-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轻松愉快 (lighthearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huoleton (care-free, careless, free from care, happy-go-lucky, non-caring, unconcerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξένοιαστος, χαρούμενος (gay, glad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | könnyű szívű. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eddrym-chreeagh, eddrym 'sy chree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ight-heartedlay беспечный (carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, happy-go-lucky, jaunty, reckless, rocked in security, thoughtless, unconcerned, unguarded, unthinking), беззаботный (carefree, careless, devil may care, happy go lucky, light hearted, lighthearted, nonchalant, reckless, slap-happy, unconcern, unconcerned). (various references) bekymmerslös (carefree, easy, light hearted). (various references) vui vẻ; vô tư lự, thư thái (repose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hilarem, hilarior, hilaris, hilariter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "LIGHT-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Light"-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lighthearted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-h-i-l-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: earthlight. | |
-3 letters: delighter, glittered, headlight, healthier, lightered, relighted. | |
-4 letters: aglitter, aigrette, alighted, detailer, detrital, elaterid, gathered, gilthead, haltered, heathier, heritage, iterated, laterite, lathered, literate, litharge, littered, retailed, retitled, targeted, thirlage, threated. | |
-5 letters: airthed, alerted, alright, altered, ariette, atelier, athlete, attired, delight, diether, dilater, earthed, egalite, gelated, girthed, gladier, glaired, glitter, gritted, hagride, haltere, headier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-h-i-l-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: lightheartedly. | |
+4 letters: lightheartedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 47 48 54 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L I G H T - H E A R T E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0049 0047 0048 0054 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46434142541542393552543938 |
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