单词 | lightsome |
释义 | lightsome (once / 12248 pages) adj If you're lightsome, you're graceful and agile in your movements. A lightsome dancer moves nimbly and effortlessly across the stage. You can be physically lightsome, skipping lightly across the sand on the beach, or lightsome in your very nature, cheerful and carefree. A lighthearted, happy-go-lucky child who's dancing and skipping around is the perfect illustration of the adjective lightsome. It's rarely used these days, mainly considered literary — so you're most likely to read it in an old book. WORD FAMILYlightsome: lightsomely, lightsomeness, lightsomer, lightsomest+/enlighten: enlightened, enlightening, enlightenment, enlightens/enlightened: enlightenedest, enlightenedly, unenlightened/enlightening: enlighteningly, unenlightening/enlightenment: enlightenments, unenlightenment/light: light-colored, lighted, lighten, lighter, lightest, lighting, lightless, lightly, lightness, lights, lightsome/lighted: unlighted/lighten: enlighten, lightened, lightening, lightens/lightening: lightenings/lighter: lighterage, lightered, lightering, lighters/lighting: lightings/lightless: lightlessness/lightness: lightnesses USAGE EXAMPLESSinging and dancing like the lightsome, joyous people they are, the couples hasten to the altar without more ado. Lytton, Henry A., The Secrets of a Savoyard(2012) Sir, methinks This News should make ye lightsome, bring joy to ye, It strikes our hearts with general Comfort. Beaumont, Francis, Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 1...(2012) The passage was very narrow, but 39 lightsome, for a door was open at the end, peeping into a lawny kind of yard. Sheppard, Elizabeth, Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2(2012) 1adj moving easily and quickly; nimble a lightsome buoyant step Syn light, tripping light-footed (of movement) having a light and springy step 2adj carefree and happy and lighthearted trilling songs with a lightsome heart Syn blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted cheerful being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits |
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