blithesome

English

Etymology

blithe +‎ -some

Adjective

blithesome (comparative more blithesome, superlative most blithesome)

1. happy or spriteful, carefree
   • 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler:

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

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     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!