Blithe Definition

blīth, blīth
blithest, blither
adjective
blithest, blither
Showing a cheerful, carefree disposition; lighthearted.
Webster's New World
Lacking or showing a lack of due concern; casual.
Spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation.
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Other Word Forms of Blithe

Adjective

Base Form:
blithe
Comparative:
blither
Superlative:
blithest

Origin of Blithe

  • From Middle English blithe, from Old English blīþe (“blithe, joyous, cheerful, pleasant; gracious, well-disposed, friendly, kind; agreeable, willing; quiet, peaceful, gentle”), from Proto-Germanic *blīþiz (“mild, pleasing, friendly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlī- (“light, pleasant, fine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate Scots blithe (“joyous, cheerful, happy, well-pleased”), North Frisian blid (“happy, glad”), West Frisian bliid (“glad, happy, joyful, joyous”), Dutch blijde, blij (“blithe, happy, joyous, glad”), German dialectal blid, blied (“glad, happy, cheerful”), Danish blid (“gentle”), Swedish blid (“mild, gentle, bland”), Icelandic blíður (“gentle, kind, friendly, mild”). Related to bliss.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English blīthe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Blithe Sentence Examples

  • Europeans are not quite so blithe on these matters, having seen the continent decimated twice in the past century by war.

  • With an average of over 24,000 readers per issue, Blithe House Quarterly is the most widely read of LGBT literary periodicals.

  • When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.

  • Doing excellent things continually through all the 'seventies, when he was in late middle age - gaining scope in colour, having now so many notes - faithful no longer wholly to his amazing range of subtle greys, now blithe and silvery, now nobly deep - sending to the Salon great canvases, and to the few enlightened people who would buy them of him the toile or panel of most moderate size on which he best of all expressed himself - Boudin was yet not acceptable to the public or to the fashionable dealer.

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