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Meaning of blitheless | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Without happiness or joy; unjoyful; sorrowful; sad.
  2. Pitiful; miserable; wretched.

Examples

“Every blitheless thing's forgot Winter's sighs and frowns are not. From the old the new is winning, All's in the beginning.”
“To Him who gave to Him doth go The spirit that is blitheless. Although our souls immortal are Without even death or birth, Our bodies go from whence they came Back to longing Mother Earth.”
“Blitheless sate the high Prince, the Aetheling so good; That strong Heart stricken sate, o'er lost thanes abrood, What time the court set eyes on the cursed Monster's trail, — Too strong that strife for Danefolk, too long the bane and bale.”
“A musty smell swells from the mounted lark, blitheless in spirit.”
“Ought he for dreaming the delights of the blitheless “bloke for whom the ghost with child haunted habitat camp-fruit-bat? Salubricious musings with mirthless guilt his soul churned to a woodpecker's rat-a-tat “on a distant tree at sundown.”
“Oh, those cruel and blitheless asses! Did they know my thoughts, my dreams, as I searched the sweet mystery of myself for the hidden meaning of my life? They did not. They judged me harshly for a few paltry actions.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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