blitheless

English

Etymology

From blithe +‎ -less.

Adjective

blitheless (comparative more blitheless, superlative most blitheless)

1. Without happiness or joy; unjoyful; sorrowful; sad.
   • 1908, Fred Whitney, The Heart of the Singer - Page 16:

     Every blitheless thing's forgot Winter's sighs and frowns are not. From the old the new is winning, All's in the beginning.

   • 1914, The Railroad Telegrapher, Volume 31, Part 2 - Page 1359:

     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.

   • 1939, Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Great English writers - Volume 1 - Page 12:

     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.

   • 1964, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, The London Magazine - Volume 4 - Page 20:

     A musty smell swells from the mounted lark, blitheless in spirit.

   • 2013, Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination - Page 92:

     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.

2. Pitiful; miserable; wretched.
   • 1968, Paul Ritchie, Confessions of a People Lover: A Novel - Page 51:

     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.