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Definition: Blithesome |
BlithesomeAdjective1. 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 "blithesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: BlithesomeSynonyms: blithe (adj), lighthearted (adj), lightsome (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blithesome |
| English words defined with "blithesome": blithe ♦ lighthearted, lightsome ♦ -some. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "blithesome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i gëzuar (airy, blithe, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, 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). (various references) | |
Czech | veselý (bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious). (various references) | |
German | munter (awake, frisky, jauntily, jaunty), fröhlich (cheerful, merry, gay, gleeful, happily, joyous, lighthearted, mirthful). (various references) | |
Greek | χαρωπόσ (boon, cheerful, cheery, jocund, jolly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pajzán (blithe, impish). (various references) | |
Italian | gioioso (buxom, cheerful, festive, joyful, joyous), gaio (airy, frolicsome, gay, jolly, lightsome, merry, mirthful, rorty, wanton), allegro (cheerful, gay, merry). (various references) | |
Manx | gennal (amiable, blithe, cheerful, convivial, gay, genial, good-humoured, jocular, jolly, jovial, mirthful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ithesomeblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jovial (gay, merry), alegre (merry, cheerful, gay, glad, happy). (various references) | |
Romanian | vesel (blithe, 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). (various references) | |
Russian | веселый (canty, cheery, convivial, festive, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, sportful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veseo (blithe, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking). (various references) | |
Spanish | alegre (happy, glad). (various references) | |
Swedish | levnadsglad. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, 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 | hoenus (blithe, gay, joyous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blithesome": blithesomely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "blithesome" (pronounced 'Blithe"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Brightsome, Darksome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, handsome, irksome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Unhandsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: boehmites, homeliest, lithesome. | |
-2 letters: boehmite, embolies, helotism, homesite, thimbles. | |
-3 letters: beslime, besmile, bethels, betimes, blemish, boletes, bolshie, bothies, elmiest, eoliths, etoiles, helmets, holiest, homiest, hostile, mobiles, motiles, obelise, obelism, omelets, sheltie, telomes, thimble. | |
-4 letters: behest, belies, bemist, betels, bethel, betime, betise, biomes, blites, blithe, boites, bolete, boleti, botels, elemis, elites, emboli, emotes, eolith, etoile. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: blithesomely, phlebotomies. | |
+4 letters: hemimetabolous, methemoglobins. | |
+5 letters: blameworthiness, hypermetabolism, hypermobilities. | |
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