What does light-hearted mean?

Definitions for light-hearted
light-heart·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

Wikipedia

  1. light-hearted

    Happiness, in the context of mental or emotional states, is positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia.Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.

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  1. light-hearted

    Light-hearted refers to something cheerful, carefree, or unconcerned, often marked by a lack of seriousness or intensity. It generally means free from malice, harshness or any negative feelings, and tends to evoke happiness and amusement.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Light-heartedadjective

    free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of light-hearted in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of light-hearted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of light-hearted in a Sentence

  1. Deanna Kugler Gallucci:

    My parents begged us, in a light-hearted but truly guilt-trip parenting sort of way.

  2. The American:

    I really took that to heart and this entire season my whole team has just been trying to keep everything a little more light hearted, i still have the full level of focus that I've always had but I'm just trying to remember that at the end of the day it's ski racing — we're not at war.

  3. Marshall McLuhan:

    The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

  4. Derek Rucker:

    Brands played it safe, using a lot of levity and humor, we didn't see too many emotional or too many deep ads. Most of them played it really safe, really light-hearted.

  5. Derek Rucker:

    We didn't see too many emotional or too many deep ads. Most of them played it really safe, really light-hearted.

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