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
Examples
- They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Men find themselves a part of Merry England or Holy Russia; they grow up into these devotions; they accept them as a part of their nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a child singing a merry, lightsome air; there was no other sound. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Oh, it was a merry life! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The repast turned out a very merry one. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was always merry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But enough of this classicism, and tell me why you look so merry. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Margaret's face dimpled up into a merry laugh. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Side by side with tragedy, comedy developed from another and merrier series of dressings-up and singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I shall be merrier than I have ever been, now I have got my own way. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They've taken the Van Alstyne place at Roslyn, and I've got CARTE BLANCHE to bring my friends down there--the more the merrier. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Before Mrs Wilfer could wave her gloves, the Mendicant's bride in her merriest affectionate manner went on again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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