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Cheerful, like Blighty, and flighty?
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light-hearted
Alternative clues for the word light-hearted
Word definitions for light-hearted in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of lighthearted English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Light-hearted \Light"-heart`ed\ (l[imac]t"h[aum]rt`[e^]d), a. Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly , adv. -- Light"-heart`ed*ness , n.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES in a serious/light-hearted etc vein ▪ poems in a lighter vein EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a happy, light-hearted girl ▪ The light-hearted way in which the author has approached this book should take some of the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also lighthearted , "cheerful," c.1400, from light (adj.1) + hearted . Related: Light-heartedly ; light-heartedness .
Usage examples of light-hearted.
He fully expected her to make some light-hearted excuse to Auster and join him.
He felt hopeful, light-hearted, and would not confess even to himself that his good spirits were due chiefly to the certainty that in another twelve hours his electioneering would be at an end.
He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.
Commando Nek on the Little Crocodile River, where he summoned Baden-Powell to surrender, and received some chaff in reply from that light-hearted commander.
Colin Beever, a gifted organiser who went on to Ruskin College, edited its mixture of gossip, light-hearted observation and youthful punditry and I wrote bits and pieces.
Conversation of a light-hearted nature followed and then Ribble bought another round of drinks.
I went gladly enough, secured the new job, learned how to do it acceptably, and was temerariously happy and light-hearted for two whole weeks.
Krishna are the most light-hearted and blithesome of all the Hindu sects.
Never again could she know the joyousness of light-hearted girlhood, while nothing the world might give her could atone for the terrible trespass which had broken the harmony of her moral nature by the perpetual sense of unatoned wrong-doing.
Even there, amid the chatter and laughter of those light-hearted tourists, the shadow of Hassan of Aleppo was falling upon me.
This is the glittering period of life, when the gay perspective of the future seems clothed in every attractive hue, and the objects of this world assume a grace divine: then it is that happiness, borne on the wings of innocence and light-hearted mirth, attends our every step, and seems to wait obedient to our will.
He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.
XI Returning the next afternoon from the first ride for several days, Winton passed the station fly rolling away from the drive-gate with the light-hearted disillusionment peculiar to quite empty vehicles.
The men were jubilant and light-hearted as a lot of school-boys, and with the exception of a feeling of jealousy among the foremen over the remudas, we were a gay crowd, turning night into day.
What had at first simply been a light-hearted kiss had deepened until Azhure had pulled back, afraid not of Belial, but of her own enjoyment.