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Blithe   /blaɪð/   Listen
Blithe

adjective
1.
Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.
2.
Carefree and happy and lighthearted.  Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome.  "A merry blithesome nature" , "Her lighthearted nature" , "Trilling songs with a lightsome heart"



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"Blithe" Quotes from Famous Books



... village of their own, just west of the quartermaster's corral, and sheltered by the long line of bluffs from the northerly gale. Deep in snowdrifts lay the snug little cabins, cottages and shacks, wherein dwelt these blithe-hearted folk—many of the girls as pretty, and to the full as coquettish, as their sisters of the official circle in the big "fort" enclosure above. Still farther to the west lay three little houses on the ...
— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King
... (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.— Bardolph, be blithe;—Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins; Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, ...
— King Henry the Fifth - Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre • William Shakespeare
... hid my rage at the legal mandate which here compelled us to "go no faster than a man can walk." Under an air of blithe insouciance I disguised my fears, never starting perceptibly at "any toot" behind us which might mean Sir Alec on our track, and appearing to enjoy with the free spirit of a boy, the one great ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... in his blithe and cock-sure youth was born to politics as the sparks fly upward. Men looked to him for leadership and he blandly demanded that they follow him. He was every man's friend. He knew the whole county by its first name. The men, ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... Humorist, still rings freshly and musically in our remembrance. And the recollection of it is doubtless all the more vivid because of the mirthful retrospect having relation to one of the most recent of Dickens's blithe home dinners in his last town residence immediately before his hurried return to Gad's Hill in the summer of 1870. Although we were happily with him afterwards, immediately before the time came when we could commune with ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent


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