Blithe

Definition: Blithe

Blithe

Adjective

1. Lacking or showing a lack of due concern; "spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation".

2. Carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blithe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonyms: Blithe

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Crosswords: Blithe

He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him. (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt)

But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen)

Blithe Spirit (1966)

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Books

• Blithe Images (Language of Love No. 38) (reference)

• Blithe Spirit - starring Shirley Knight, Ian Ogilvy, Judy Geeson, Rosalind Ayres (Audio Theatre Series) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Blithe Spirit (Second Chance at Love No 313) (reference)

• Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Blithe Spirits (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blithe Spirit (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. John Leonard Jr. and Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Christina Blithe slice the birthday cake with a sword on behalf of all enlisted Guardsmen during the National Guard's 364th birthday celebration in Arlington, Va., on.

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Your names are BLITHE, E.

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Beginning with "blithe": blithe-heart.

Albanian

i gëzuar (airy, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏مبتهج (alacrity, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), ‏سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, unstressed, upbeat). (various references)

Bulgarian 

весел (airy, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), игрив (coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

愉快 (Agreeable, Happy). (various references)

Czech

radostný (cheerful, cheery, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty). (various references)

Farsi 

مهربانی (Affability, Amiability, Kindness), مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Meek, Mellow, Merciful, Mild, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), نرم وملایم , خوش قلب , خوش (Blissful, Buxom, Gay, Good, Happy, Jocund, Merry, Sweet), ادم شوخ ومهربان , شوخ (Gay, Jester, Jocose, Jocular, Jocularity, Joker, Mower, Quizzical, Waggish, Witty), شاددل (Merry), دوستانه (Amicable, Hobnob, Sociable). (various references)

French

joyeux, gai, content, allègre. (various references)

German

vergnügt (amuses, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, enjoyable, gay, gleeful, happily, happy, hilarious, jolly, merrily, merry, pleasant), heiter (alacritous, amusing, bright, brightly, buoyant, buoyantly, carefree, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, clear, fair, fine, funny, gay, gayly, genially, glad, happily, happy, humorous, humorously, jocund, jovial, jovially, lighthearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, sanguine, serene, sunny, tranquil, untroubled), froh (cheerily, cheery, glad, gladly, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, mirthful, pleased). (various references)

Greek 

φαιδρόσ (cheerful, debonair, gay, genial, guy, hilarious, jovial, vivacious, winsome), εύθυμοσ (chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy), ευτυχής (blissful). (various references)

Hebrew 

עליז (cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly). (various references)

Hungarian

vidám (amused, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits), tájékozatlan, pajzán (blithesome, impish), naiv (green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, innocent, naïve, naif, naive, pushover, untutored), dévaj (mischievous, puckish, skittish). (various references)

Indonesian

bahagia (happy). (various references)

Italian

giocoso (jocose, jocular, playful), allegro (allegro, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Manx

reagh (amorous, frisky, frolicsome, lecherous, mirthful, playful, randy, sportive), gennal (amiable, blithesome, cheerful, convivial, gay, genial, good-humoured, jocular, jolly, jovial, mirthful). (various references)

Pig Latin

itheblay.(various references)

Portuguese

jovial (blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), alegre (alive, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

vesel (blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), fericit (beatific, beatifical, blessed, felicitous, fortunate, glad, happily, happy, joyful, successful). (various references)

Russian 

веселый (blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), жизнерадостный (buoyant, debonair, eupeptic, good-humoured, jolly as sandboy, lively as a cricket, merry as a cricket, resilient, rose-coloured, zestful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bezbrižan (carefree, fancy-free, happy go lucky, jaunty), veseo (blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), radostan (glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleesome, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, rejoicing). (various references)

Spanish

contento (chipper, chuffed, content, contented, contentedness, contentment, glad, happiness, happy, pleased, satisfied), alegre (airy, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

munter (breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly). (various references)

Turkish

neşeli (airy, animate, animated, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), mutlu (blissful, chuffed, contented, delighted, elated, felicitous, happy, merry, palmy, rejoicing), şen (breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive). (various references)

Ukrainian

щасливий (blessed, chancy, felicitous, fortunate, golden, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, overjoyed, palmy, providential, thrifty), веселий (airy, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), житт�"радісний (buoyant, canty, chirpy, exuberant, jocund, resilient), блаженний (beatific, blissful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ (blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful). (various references)

Welsh

llon (glad, merry), llawen (cheerful, gay, glad, joyful, merry), hoenus (blithesome, gay, joyous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blithe": blithely, blither, blithered, blithering, blithers, blithesome, blithesomely, blithest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blithe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ablythe, Baitha, Beithe, Bhikhu, bilithe, bilopha, bithe, Blaha, blaithe, blath, blathe, blete, blethed, Blethyn, blidah, blih, Blisham, bliteh, blith, blithel, blithes, blithey, blitze, blizhee, bltihe, Bluth, Blythin, Bulith, Elithie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: blite, lithe.

-2 letters: belt, beth, bile, bite, blet, elhi, heil, hilt, lite, tile.

-3 letters: bel, bet, bit, eth, het, hie, hit, lei, let, lib, lie, lit, tel, the, tie, til.

-4 letters: be, bi, eh, el, et, he, hi, it, li, ti.

+1 letter: blither, thimble.

+2 letters: bimethyl, blighted, blighter, blithely, blithers, blithest, thimbles, thurible, tithable.

+3 letters: biathlete, bimethyls, blighters, blighties, blithered, blotchier, blueshift, breathily, eightball, establish, habitable, herbalist, heritable, homebuilt, phlebitis, shiftable, thinkable, thuribles.

+4 letters: alphabetic, battleship, beclothing, biathletes, bioethical, birthplace, blathering, blethering, blithering, blithesome, blotchiest, blueshifts, charitable, eightballs, habiliment, habilitate, herbalists, hospitable, sheathbill, shibboleth, stablished, stablishes, switchable, thimbleful, thimblerig.