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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Full of gaiety; joyous.

Etymologies

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blithe +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • 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

  • "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

  • Drink wine, and live here blitheful, while ye may:

    The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632

  • 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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