Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kindly.
- Glad; joyous; joyful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
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- adjective Full of
gaiety ;joyous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he must have detected the iron-barb of vice beneath the mask of blitheful innocence, for, after a short deliberation, the trout turned and disappeared under the bank.
Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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"We have been on an unsustainable track for a very long period of time and we have, in many ways, in a blitheful fashion, have ignored that reality," said Malloy, adding how the state needs to do what's necessary to put Connecticut "in a sustainable mode" with state employees.
unknown title 2011
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful, while ye may:
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may, II.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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