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lighthearted

[ lahyt-hahr-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

carefree; cheerful; merry:
a lighthearted laugh.
Synonyms: jocund, jovial, merry, glad, happy, blithe, joyful, cheery
Antonyms: gloomy, melancholy, cheerless

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1375–1425; late Middle English ligt-herted; light ², heart, -ed ³

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But not all the communications from friends and associates were as lighthearted.

It is, in a way, a lighthearted routine with a dark subtext: many of those gathered are accustomed to failure at auditions.

“One of the notes that the casting director gave me was that Taystee is very lighthearted,” Brooks says.

Even from the whimsical and lighthearted conversation in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

It is not enough to-day to paint the gay impropriety of models and the devil-may-care penury of lighthearted artists.

There was danger even then of being inveigled; but Marie was young, lighthearted, undaunted, and fond of a joke.

Here and there the dwarfs murmured an obsequious greeting to Miellyn, and she made some lighthearted answer.

When you saw that girl first she was as lighthearted and contented with her lot as any human being could be.

Her high spirits were infectious—her lighthearted gaiety communicated itself to everybody.

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