mirthful
/mə:θful/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Causing or expressing amusement and laughter: Describes something that provokes laughter or is characterized by a cheerful, humorous quality.
- Full of joy and high-spirited merriment: Describes a state or expression of being very happy, cheerful, and lively.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The comedian's mirthful performance had the entire audience roaring with laughter.
- Her face was mirthful as she listened to the funny story.
- The room was filled with mirthful conversation and the sound of clinking glasses.
Advanced Usage
- "mirthful spirit": A cheerful and joyful disposition.
- Despite the difficulties, he maintained a mirthful spirit.
- "mirthful eyes": Eyes that sparkle with happiness and amusement.
- She looked at him with mirthful eyes, sharing in the joke.
Variants and Related Words
- Mirth (n): Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter.
- The joke filled the room with mirth.
- Mirthfully (adv): In a mirthful manner.
- She laughed mirthfully at the memory.
- Mirthfulness (n): The quality or state of being mirthful.
- The mirthfulness of the celebration was contagious.
Synonyms
- Jovial: Cheerful and friendly.
- Jolly: Happy and cheerful.
- Merry: Cheerful and lively.
- Jocund: Cheerful and lighthearted (literary).
- Amusing: Causing laughter or providing entertainment.
Antonyms
- Gloomy: Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing; feeling distressed or pessimistic.
- Morose: Sullen and ill-tempered.
- Somber: Dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy.
- Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Adjective
- arousing or provoking laughter
- an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls
- an amusing fellow
- a comic hat
- a comical look of surprise
- funny stories that made everybody laugh
- a very funny writer
- it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much
- a mirthful experience
- risible courtroom antics
- full of or showing high-spirited merriment
- when hearts were young and gay
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company- Wordsworth
- the jolly crowd at the reunion
- jolly old Saint Nick
- a jovial old gentleman
- have a merry Christmas
- peals of merry laughter
- a mirthful laugh