different between lightsome vs jocund

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)

1. 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.”

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)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• lightsomely (adverb) (archaic)
• lightsomeness (noun) (archaic)

English

Etymology

From Old French jocond, from Latin i?cundus (“pleasant, agreeable”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: jo?cund
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??k?nd/, /?d???k?nd/
• (US) enPR: jäk??nd, j??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?d??k?nd/, /?d?o?k?nd/

Adjective

jocund (comparative more jocund, superlative most jocund)

1. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
   • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)

     There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund, that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

     a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

Derived terms

• jocundity
• jocundly
• jocundness

Translations