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blithe
[blahyth, blahyth] 
–adjective, blith⋅er, blith⋅est.
| 1. | joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit. |
| 2. | without thought or regard; carefree; heedless: a blithe indifference to anyone's feelings. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE blīthe; c. ON blīthr, OHG blīdi, Goth bleiths
bef. 1000; ME; OE blīthe; c. ON blīthr, OHG blīdi, Goth bleiths
Related forms:
blitheful, adjective
blithe⋅ful⋅ly, adverb
blithely, adverb
blitheness, noun
Synonyms:
1. happy, mirthful, sprightly, light-hearted, buoyant, joyful, blithesome.
1. happy, mirthful, sprightly, light-hearted, buoyant, joyful, blithesome.
Antonyms:
1. joyless.
1. joyless.
Blithe
[blahyth, blahyth] –noun
| a female given name. |
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| blithe (blīth, blīth) adj. blith·er, blith·est
[Middle English, from Old English blīthe.] blithe'ly adv., blithe'ness n. |
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Blithe
Blithe\ (bl[imac][th]), a. [AS. bl[=i][eth]e blithe, kind; akin to Goth. blei[thorn]s kind, Icel. bl[=i][eth]r mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, OHG. bl[=i]di kind, blithe.] Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. --Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : blithe
Spanish:
alegre,
German:
munter,
Japanese:
快活な
blithe
O.E. bliþe "joyous, kind," from P.Gmc. *blithiz "gentle, kind" (cf. O.S. bliði "bright, happy," O.N. bliðr "mild, gentle," O.H.G. blidi "gay, friendly," Goth. bleiþs "kind, friendly, merciful"). Rare since 16c. No cognates outside Gmc. "The earlier application was to the outward expression of kindly feeling, sympathy, affection to others, as in Gothic and ON.; but in OE. the word had come more usually to be applied to the external manifestation of one's own pleased or happy frame of mind, and hence even to the state itself." [OED]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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