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Definition of lightsome in English: lightsomeadjective ˈlʌɪts(ə)mˈlaɪtsəm literary 1Happy and carefree. Example sentencesExamples - Addressing vast audiences, the former slave ‘touches chords in the inner chambers thereof which vibrate music now sweet, now sad, now lightsome, now solemn, now startling, now grand, now majestic, now sublime’.
- I have known a Man thoughtful, melancholy, and raving for divers days, who forthwith grew wonderfully easy, lightsome and cheerful, upon a Discharge of the peccant Humour, in exceeding purulent Metre.
- So what had seemed darksome before now appears most perfectly lightsome to every sort of person-to the dense as well as to the discerning.
- In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring.
- Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
2Gracefully nimble. lightsome, high-flying dancers Example sentencesExamples - Then you take a little jump, and what follows immediately is lightsome and pattering.
Synonyms nimble, deft, agile, lithe, limber, lissom, flexible, supple, adroit, graceful, acrobatic, lively, active, quick, quick-moving, spry, sprightly
Derivatives adverb literary Each of the three characters, plus an eccentric psychiatrist, is precisely located - and lightsomely elsewhere. Example sentencesExamples - And the smaller arches above, how delicate and lightsomely graceful!
- Start your day lightsomely and get some positive energy in our Bulle Lobby Bar.
- I perceive a flock of snow-birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer.
noun literary A symphony of Beethoven is like a tree, with the sturdiness of trunk instantly with and explained by the lightsomeness and changingness of branch, twig, leaf. Example sentencesExamples - The opposites of seriousness or heaviness and lightsomeness are in his clothing and the very objects he holds.
- One thing about him is his constant lightsomeness of spirit and tone.
- There is a lightsomeness about its gaudy exterior that seems to defy gravity.
- Why does the lightsomeness and variety of a more airy landscape suggest to us the idea of gaiety and social mirth?
Definition of lightsome in US English: lightsomeadjectiveˈlītsəmˈlaɪtsəm literary 1Merry and carefree. Example sentencesExamples - Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
- In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring.
- So what had seemed darksome before now appears most perfectly lightsome to every sort of person-to the dense as well as to the discerning.
- Addressing vast audiences, the former slave ‘touches chords in the inner chambers thereof which vibrate music now sweet, now sad, now lightsome, now solemn, now startling, now grand, now majestic, now sublime’.
- I have known a Man thoughtful, melancholy, and raving for divers days, who forthwith grew wonderfully easy, lightsome and cheerful, upon a Discharge of the peccant Humour, in exceeding purulent Metre.
2Gracefully nimble. lightsome, high-flying dancers Example sentencesExamples - Then you take a little jump, and what follows immediately is lightsome and pattering.
Synonyms nimble, deft, agile, lithe, limber, lissom, flexible, supple, adroit, graceful, acrobatic, lively, active, quick, quick-moving, spry, sprightly
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