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say it: blahyth
blithe is an adjective meaning "lacking or showing a lack of due concern". It carries 2 recorded senses.
lacking or showing a lack of due concern
“spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation”
carefree and happy and lighthearted
“was loved for her blithe spirit”
“a merry blithesome nature”
“her lighthearted nature”
“trilling songs with a lightsome heart”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blithe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.