blithesome

English

Etymology

blithe +‎ -some

Adjective

blithesome (comparative more blithesome, superlative most blithesome)

  1. happy or spriteful, carefree
    • 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler:
      Fare not the birds well, as from spray to spray
      Blithsome they bound—yet find their simple food
      Scattered abundantly?
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!' 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!
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