LIGHT-HEARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light-hearted mean? 

• LIGHT-HEARTED (adjective)
  The adjective LIGHT-HEARTED has 1 sense:

1. carefree and happy and lighthearted

  Familiarity information: LIGHT-HEARTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT-HEARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carefree and happy and lighthearted

Synonyms:

blithe; blithesome; light-hearted; lighthearted; lightsome

Context example:

trilling songs with a lightsome heart

Similar:

cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)

 Context examples 

“I am happier in myself,” she said; “I am quite cheerful and light-hearted.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At last he turned away and made his way back to the high-road—another person from the light-hearted boy who had left it a short three hours before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You think her more light-hearted than I am?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In a similar feeling of delicacy, we were always blithe and light-hearted with the licence clients.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Edricson and Terlake rode behind him in little better case, while Ford, a careless and light-hearted youth, grinned at the melancholy of his companions, and flourished his lord's heavy spear, making a point to right and a point to left, as though he were a paladin contending against a host of assailants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began, by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about, came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He told us a merry adventure of his own, as a relief to that, with as much gaiety as if the narrative were as fresh to him as it was to us—and little Em'ly laughed until the boat rang with the musical sounds, and we all laughed (Steerforth too), in irresistible sympathy with what was so pleasant and light-hearted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“She tried to hold up after that; and many a time, when they told her she was thoughtless and light-hearted, made believe to be so; but it was all a bygone then. She never told her husband what she had told me—she was afraid of saying it to anybody else—till one night, a little more than a week before it happened, when she said to him: “My dear, I think I am dying.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)