Mirth
[mɜːθ] or [mɝθ]
Definition
(n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
(n.) That which causes merriment.
Edited by Bryan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Merriment, hilarity, jollity, joviality, gayety, merry-making, sport, fun.
Checker: Roland
Definition
n. merriness: pleasure: delight: noisy gaiety: jollity: laughter.—adj. Mirth′ful full of mirth: causing mirth: merry: jovial.—adv. Mirth′fully.—n. Mirth′fulness.—adj. Mirth′less joyless: cheerless.—n. Mirth′lessness absence of mirth.
Checker: Mimi
Examples
- For tears, for sadness, or for mirth, You rule my destiny on earth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This led to much joy and mirth over the pleasant suggestion of a frightfully distorted head, an onion head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here the little man indulged in a convulsion of mirth, which was only checked by the entrance of a third party. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not quite so miserable as to be insensible to mirth. Jane Austen. Emma.
- No; it could not have been the fat boy; there was not a gleam of mirth, or anything but feeding in his whole visage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You will spoil all, destroy the mirth of the piece, the enjoyment of the company, sacrifice everything to your _amour-propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Bella's countenance fell in the midst of her mirth. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This increased the mirth of the company, and Margaret was eagerly pressed to say something more. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He was all gaiety; scraps of songs fell from his lips; every thought of his mind--every object about us, gleamed under the sunshine of his mirth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sedate and solemn were the score of rubbers in which Mr. Pickwick and the old lady played together; uproarious was the mirth of the round table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Evelyn was only five years old; his joyous heart was incapable of sorrow, and he enlivened our house with the innocent mirth incident to his years. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Weller's smile awakened no gleam of mirth in his master's countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A last flash of innumerable torches, a last burst of frenzied mirth, then darkness and quiet—the Dionysia was ended. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Adrian