Lightsome

Definitions: Lightsome

Lightsome

Adjective

1. Moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step".

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 "lightsome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Lightsome

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.

Irresolution

Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.

Crosswords: Lightsome

The child went singing away, following up the current of the brook, and striving to mingle a more lightsome cadence with its melancholy voice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

mendjelehtë (airily, facile, featherbrain, featherbrained, featherheaded, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hoity toity, light minded, light-headed, unreflecting, unthinking, vain), i zhdërvjellët (agile, dexterous, dextrous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, supple, versatile), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منير, ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, 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, 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), ‏وضاء (bright), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

радостен (cheerful, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jocund, joyful, joyous, lusty, merry, mirthful), гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), грациозен (airy, graceful, svelte, sylph-like, willowy), весел (airy, blithe, 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, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), безгрижен (airy, carefree, careless, devil may care, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending). (various references)

Czech

pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome). (various references)

French

plaisant (light-spirited), enjoué, écervelé (light, light hearted, light minded). (various references)

Greek 

χαριτωμένοσ (comely, cute, darling, dinky, graceful, pretty), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), ελαφρόσ (buoyant, feathery, flippant, frivolous, gentle, light, resilient, skin deep, slight, yeasty), λυγερόσ (lissom, lissome, slim). (various references)

Hungarian

könnyed (airy, colloquial, ethereal, facile, fluent, free and easy, graceful, jaunty, light, off hand, off-handed, tripping). (various references)

Italian

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

Pig Latin

ightsomelay

Portuguese

luminoso (auroral, bright, clear, enlightening, illuminating, illuminative, light, lucent, lucid, luminous, self-luminous), vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), gracioso (airy, beautiful, benign, canny, comely, dainty, elegant, goodly, graceful, gracious, handsome, jimp, lovely, seemly, slender, slim, well turned, willowy, witty), claro (articulate, bright, broad, certain, clean, clear, clearly, distinct, evident, fair, flyaway, fresh, light, limpid, Lucerne, lucid, luculent, neat, obvious, of course, open, open and shut, overt, pellucid, perspiration, plain, plainspoken, pure, self-explanatory, simple, slip on, specific, tangible, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unclouded, unequivocal, unmistakable, water-repellent, watertight), barco-farol, alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, Corky, divertissement, entertainment, exhilarated, fester, festively, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday maker, jaunty, jocular, jocundity, jolly, joviality, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larkspur, laughing, light, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome), ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light footed, limber, lissome, list, lithe, lithium, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references)

Romanian

luminos (bright, brilliant, candent, cheerful, clear, glorious, glowing, happy, light, living, lucent, lucid, luminous, serene), luminat (alight, enlightened, illumination, lighted, lit, luminous), limpede (avowedly, bright, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sheer, sure), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), sprinten (agile, agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lissom, lithe, lively, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), neîntunecat, clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, broad, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable). (various references)

Russian 

грациозный (graceful, slender), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), легкий (airy, cheap, cushy, delicate, easy, easygoing, effortless, ethereal, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamery, light, light weight, lightweight, mild, potty, runaway, sketchy, toilless, unlabored, unlaboured). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), skladan (concordant, harmonic, harmonious, suitable, tunable), graciozan (charming, flowing, slinky, svelte), frivolan (frivolous, skittish). (various references)

Spanish

claro (apparent, break, bright, bright interval, broad, celestial, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, clearing, clearly, crystal clear, dainty, definite, direct, discharged, distinct, evident, fair, gap, glade, it is clear, light, liquid, obvious, of course, opening, pellucid, plain, precise, rift, sure, thin, transparent, unshadowed, weak), alegre (airy, blithe, 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, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

ljus (blond, bright, candela, candle, candlepower, clear, fair, fair-haired, gay, glim, light, lights, lucid, luminary, luminous, pale), lättsinnig (fickle, frivolous, giddy, irresponsible, light, light minded, light-headed, naughty, sporty, thoghtless, trifling, wanton), snabb (adroit, clipping, darting, double quick, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleeting, hurried, precipitatious, precipitous, presto, rapid, ready, smart, spanking, swift), graciös (graceful), gladlynt (cheerful, gay, good humoured, good-humored, jovial, merry, riant). (various references)

Ukranian 

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), світлий (blonde, bright, candid, clear, light, whitish), що світиться, граціозний (airy, graceful, light, sylphlike), легковажний (airy, careless, daft, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, puerile, volatile), безжурний (airy, cheerful, easygoing, light hearted). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lông bông (lightsomeness), thanh nhã vui vẻ, tươi cười nhẹ dạ, có dáng nhẹ nhàng; duyên dáng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lightsome": lightsomely, lightsomeness, lightsomenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "lightsome": delightsome. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lightsome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eightsome, Litesome. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: helotism.

-2 letters: egotism, eoliths, gimlets, hogties, holiest, homiest, hostile, logiest, motiles, semilog, sleight.

-3 letters: egoism, egoist, eights, eolith, gemots, gimels, gimlet, glimes, golems, helios, helots, hogtie, holies, holism, holist, hostel, hotels, isohel, legist, legits, lights, lithos, mights, mohels, molest, molies, motels, motile, sleigh, slight, somite, stogie, theism, thiols, tholes, toiles.

-4 letters: eight, emits, ethos.

+2 letters: delightsome, lightsomely, mythologies.

+3 letters: hematologies, hematologist, moonlighters, mythologizes.

+4 letters: hematologists, lightsomeness, methodologies, methodologist, mythologizers.

+5 letters: demythologizes, hepatomegalies, methemoglobins, methodologists, remythologizes, rheumatologies, rheumatologist.

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