Merry

['merɪ] or ['mɛri]

Definition

(superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

(superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.

(superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

(n.) A kind of wild red cherry.

Editor: Murdoch

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Mirthful, jovial, gleeful, gay, hilarious, sportive, jocund, joyous, facetious, lively, jolly, buxom, frolicsome, blithe, blithesome, airy, gladsome, vivacious, debonair, wanton, light-hearted.

Inputed by Kurt

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See MELANCHOLY]

Editor: Pierre

Definition

adj. sportive: cheerful: noisily gay: causing laughter: lively.—adv. Merr′ily.—ns. Merr′imake Merr′y-make (Spens.) a meeting for making merry a festival mirth.—v.i. to make merry to feast.—ns. Merr′iment Merr′iness gaiety with laughter and noise: mirth: hilarity; Merr′y-an′drew one who makes sport for others: a buffoon: one who goes round with a mountebank or a quack doctor—also Merr′yman; Merr′y-go-round a revolving ring of hobby-horses &c. on which children ride round at fairs &c.; Merr′y-mak′ing a merry entertainment a festival; Merr′y-thought the forked bone of a fowl's breast which two persons pull at in play the one who breaks off the longer part being thought likely to be first married.

n. an English wild-cherry.

Typist: Portia

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream being merry, or in merry company, denotes that pleasant events will engage you for a time, and affairs will assume profitable shapes.

Typed by Hiram

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