Synonyms for light-hearted
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Cheerful — joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad
cheerful, lively, joyful, happy, gleeful, vivacious, merry, light, gay, jovial, mirthful, joyous, jolly, buoyant, elated, jocund, gladsome
2. Laid-back — enjoyably lacking of seriousness, not grave
easy-going, laid-back, carefree, nonchalant, insouciant, airy, mellow, careless, unconcerned, indifferent
3. Blithe
Definitions
- adj. 1
Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.
The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
- adj. 2
Enjoyably lacking of seriousness, not grave.
I continued my speech in a more light-hearted vein.
Related words
- Word family
- light-heartedly light-headed
- Other spellings
- lighthearted
Example sentences
- cheerful She is loved by everybody because she is cheerful.
- joyful Beautiful fireworks conclude these two joyful days.
- vivacious Mary was very vivacious and easy to talk to.
- gleeful Tom looked almost gleeful as he announced the news.
- carefree Someone who is carefree easily changes their tune.
By length
- 3 letters
- gay1
- 4 letters
- airy2
- 5 letters
- happy2, light1, merry2, jolly2
- 6 letters
- lively2, joyful2, joyous2, mellow2, elated3, jovial3, blithe1, jocund
- 7 letters
- buoyant2, gleeful2
- 8 letters
- cheerful2, careless2, carefree2, mirthful, gladsome
- 9 letters
- vivacious3, lightsome
- 10 letters
- nonchalant3, insouciant3, blithesome
- 11 letters
- indifferent3, unconcerned3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (airy2 = 2 syllables).