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形容詞

blithesome (comparative more blithesome, superlative most blithesome)

1. Happy or spriteful; carefree.
   • 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: Printed [by J. M‘Creery] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, OCLC 362102, Act I, page 9:

     Fare not the birds well, as from spray to spray / Blithsome they bound—yet find their simple food / Scattered abundantly?

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Wayfarers All”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520, page 211:

     [']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!