Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. High-spirited fun and enjoyment; hilarity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being merry or frolicsome; hilarious enjoyment; jollity: as, boisterous merriment.
- n. The act of making merry; mirthful entertainment; frolic.
- n. A short comedy or play.
- n. Synonyms See jolly.
Wiktionary
- n. a state of enjoyable exuberance
- n. playful fun
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. activities that are enjoyable or amusing
- n. a gay feeling
Examples
“I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the beach, bareheaded, in mock despair.”
“Envision remotely controlled party barges bombing down the highway while we eat and drink in merriment entertained by tv, movies, internet, music and my personal crack of choice “information”.”
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“Of course, everyone else nearby will think that the outburst of merriment is muy loco.”
“She could tell because an expression of merriment, like the expression he had had when he was small and they played games together, came into his face.”
“Wholesome merriment is the logical result of a deeply embedded faith, and seriousness is only sad when it becomes superficial.”
“Wholesome merriment is the logical result of a deeply imbedded faith, and seriousness is only sad when it becomes superficial.”
“I shouted, when I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the beach, bareheaded, in mock despair.”
“Oh, how I longed then for the dear soothings of maternal Nature, as my wounded heart was still further stung by the roar of heartless merriment from the public-house, by the sight of the drunkard reeling home, having lost the memory of what he would find there in oblivious debauch, and by the more appalling salutations of those melancholy beings to whom the name of home was a mockery.”
“Behind the merriment was a strong current of malice.”
“The idea which ALMORAN had formed in his imagination, was exceeded by the reality, and his passion was proportionably increased; yet he found means not only to conceal it from HAMET, but from ALMEIDA, by affecting an air of levity and merriment, which is not less incompatible with the pleasures than the pains of love.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘merriment’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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gre
municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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-ments aplenty
The stranger, the better.
battlement, devilment, ailment, dismemberment, embezzlement, blandishment, entanglement, engorgement, embankment, elopement, disgruntlement, hutment and 77 more...
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jan_21
magoosh listens
infuriating, galvanize, sporadic, imperciptible, shirk, protean, versatile, auspicious, clairvoyance, nary, predilection, inkling and 63 more...
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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GRE 2011
Lists 300 top words appearing in revised GRE
meticulous, Prosaic, Disseminate, Censure, Prodigal, Maintain, Deride, Pragmatic, Deferential, Contrite, Panache, Fey and 89 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for merriment.
milosrdenstvi My object all sublime
I will achieve in time,
To let the punishment fit the crime,
The punishment fit the crime,
And make each pris'ner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment,
Of innocent merriment.
-- W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado Aug 20, 2008