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The word "lighthearted" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone or something that is cheerful, carefree, or optimistic, usually with an implication of being light or not serious. For example: "She always maintains a lighthearted attitude, even in difficult situations."
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lighthearted
adjective
Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive. Not depressed or sad.
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In the "Song of the Open Road", Walt Whitman wrote: Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
The atmosphere was relaxed and lighthearted.
Peter himself was given the entire string section and a jaunty lighthearted melody.
Some ceremonies include ritual clowns, with their own songs for entering and exiting the dance arena; their antics serve the dual purpose of keeping people lighthearted while reinforcing social values by demonstrating incorrect behaviour.
February 1, 1932 New York City, New York October 11, 2016 San Diego, California David Antin, (born February 1 , 1932 New York, New York, U.S. died October 11, 2016, San Diego, California) American poet, translator, and art critic who became best known for his improvisational "talk poems," first published in Talking (1972), which blend lighthearted storytelling and comedy with social commentary.
It's a lighthearted and effective way to get the public, and ultimately politicians, engaged with a serious issue.
"It's just lighthearted to kick off the day," he said in comfortably the most entertaining of the post-match press conferences in Perth.
Keating shared some of the more lighthearted sides of Wran's personality, saying he had a "PhD in poetic profanity".
It's amazing how this criticism is so rarely levelled at football writers, say, or people writing lighthearted pieces about DIY or dogwalking.
"First finding from Omid: earth is round!" read the lighthearted gibe at what many Iranians stubbornly bemoan as the provincial backwardness of their rulers.
What does burgernomics have to say?The Big Mac index is The Economist's lighthearted analysis of foreign-exchange rates.
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