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lightsome
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??ts?m/
Etymology 1
From light (“bright”, adjective) +? -some (“very like, same as”, suffix forming adjectives).
Adjective
lightsome (comparative more lightsome, superlative most lightsome)
- Characterised by light; luminous; emitting or manifesting light; radiant.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xlix:
- This said, the smoky cloud was cleft and torn, / Which like a veil upon them stretched lay, // And up to open heav'n forthwith was borne, / And left the prince in view of lightsome day.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p.105:
- There came a day when he remembered the moment, when he regretted that he had not ridden off into the buoyant midst of these lightsome elements.
- 2006, Goswin (of Bossut.), Martinus Cawley, Send me God:
- If any find it incredible that Ida be even outwardly so lightsome that she saw clearly in the night, let them answer this question.
- 2009, David Rooney, The wine of certitude:
- The literal sense of the Greek is: “If therefore thy whole body is lightsome, having no part darksome, thy whole body will be lightsome, as when the lamp lightens thee with its flashing.”
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xlix:
Antonyms
- darksome
Derived terms
- lightsomely (adverb) (archaic)
- lightsomeness (noun) (archaic)
Translations
Etymology 2
From light (“not heavy”, adjective) +? -some (“very like, same as”, suffix forming adjectives).
Adjective
lightsome (comparative more lightsome, superlative most lightsome)
- Upbeat; cheery; light graceful.
- 1983, Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic experience:
- Reality is lightsome, that is, light and graceful.... Moreover, the play, the lightsome character of reality, would be misunderstood if this dimension were to be severed from what really makes a play a play, [...]
- 1999, Thomas Middleton, David M. Bevington, Kathleen McLuskie, Plays on women - Page 69:
- When I was of your youth, I was lightsome and quick two years before I was married.
- 1983, Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic experience:
Derived terms
- lightsomely (adverb) (archaic)
- lightsomeness (noun) (archaic)
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hopeful
English
Alternative forms
- hopefull (archaic)
Etymology
From hope +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ho?pf?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??pf?l/
- Hyphenation: hope?ful
Adjective
hopeful (comparative more hopeful, superlative most hopeful)
- feeling hope
- inspiring hope
- It looks hopeful that my father will be able to walk again.
Antonyms
- hopeless
- desperate
- dejected
Derived terms
- hopefully
Translations
Noun
hopeful (plural hopefuls)
- Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.
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