Blithe vs Blissful - What's the difference?
blithe | blissful |
(dated or literary) Happy, cheerful.
Indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern.
Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
* 1738 , , "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26,
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 27,
* 1983 , James Hijiya, "American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 127, no. 5., page 349,
(obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
* c1387 , , "The Prioress' Tale," in The Canterbury Tales ,
As adjectives the difference between blithe and blissful
is that blithe is dated or literary Happy, cheerful while blissful is extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.blithe
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Adjective
(er)- She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.
Derived terms
* * * * * * * *blissful
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Alternative forms
* blissfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
- And call Britannia's glories back to view;
- She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
- New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
- Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
- Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
- To worship aye