What does light-hearted mean?

Definitions for light-hearted
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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. Marshall McLuhan:

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

  2. William Krenn:

    I was just so shocked. I was driving my car and I had to pull over because I was full of goosebumps and I was shaking, i just could not believe that this goofball, light-hearted kid that I went to training with did something so evil.

  3. Derek Rucker:

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

  4. Britney Spears:

    They relate to him really well, and they have fun together, he's refreshing to be around and really light-hearted.

  5. Ed Sealover:

    We stand behind the Bud Light transparency campaign and have no plans to change the advertising. Brendan Whitworth, chief of U.S. sales for parent company Anheuser-Busch, said roughly 40 percent of consumers want some kind of additional transparency on products they consume, which is a key data point for the company. The epic joust is far from over. MillerCoors just unleashed a fresh assault of its own. We launched new ads from Miller Lite that are light hearted way to poke fun at the fact that Bud Light is living in fantasy world and in real world, more taste is what matters, says Adam Collins, vice president of communications for MillerCoors. The ads consist of medieval scenes with actors portraying thefamous Bud Light knightandprisoners, walking off the commercial set to crack open a Miller Lite. Beer book author and Denver Business Journal Reporter Ed Sealover, said beer sales have been suffering. At this point, when you continue to lose sales, you need to peck at your competition because youre not taking those sales away from craft breweries right now, he said. Youre going to have to take it away from people who compete in the same market as you.

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