What does Lightsome mean?
Definitions for Lightsome
ˈlaɪt səmlight·some
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Princeton's WordNet
light, lightsome, trippingadjective
moving easily and quickly; nimble
"the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step"
blithe, blithesome, lighthearted, lightsome, light-heartedadjective
carefree and happy and lighthearted
"was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lightsomeadjective
Etymology: from light.
Neither the sun, nor any thing sensible is that light itself, which is the cause that things are lightsome, though it make itself, and all things else, visible; but a body most enlightened, by whom the neighbouring region, which the Greeks call æther, the place of the supposed element of fire, is effected and qualified. Walter Raleigh.
White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Francis Bacon.
Equal posture, and quick spirits, are required to make colours lightsome. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.
The Sun
His course exalted through the Ram had run
Through Taurus, and the lightsome realms of love. Dryd.It suiteth so fitly with that lightsome affection of joy, wherein God delighteth when his saints praise him. Richard Hooker.
The lightsome passion of joy was not that which now often usurps the name; that trivial, vanishing, superficial thing, that only gilds the apprehension, and plays upon the surface of the soul. Robert South, Sermons.
Webster Dictionary
Lightsomeadjective
having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright
Lightsomeadjective
gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lightsome in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lightsome in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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