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synonyms for mirth

  • hilarity
  • laughter
  • levity
  • rejoicing
  • amusement
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • convulsions
  • entertainment
  • festivity
  • frivolity
  • frolic
  • fun
  • gaiety
  • gladness
  • glee
  • happiness
  • hysteria
  • hysterics
  • jocularity
  • jocundity
  • jollity
  • joviality
  • joyousness
  • kicks
  • laughs
  • lightheartedness
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • pleasure
  • revelry
  • sport
  • whoopee
See also synonyms for: mirthless

antonyms for mirth

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  • depression
  • gloom
  • melancholy
  • misery
  • pain
  • sadness
  • seriousness
  • sorrow
  • unhappiness
  • woe
  • work
  • blues
  • distress
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How to use mirth in a sentence

Then—(with difficulty restraining another outburst of mirth)—how about "27 for oysters and Chablis" after the visit?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
Mrs. Chester promptly obeyed, surprised by the mingled mirth and vexation expressed by her husband's face.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMOND
The blood hummed through Garnache's head as he tightened his lips and watched this gentleman indulge his inexplicable mirth.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
I laughed suddenly without mirth; I knew that one man didn't have a Chinaman's chance of holding four men in that warehouse.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUS
A score of river-drivers were marching down through the village, mocking the fishers and making wild mirth.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
Sometimes I wonder if my father in the clearness of his new vision does not join them in their mirth.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Sometimes I was almost deafened with their songs, at others with their bursts of maddened mirth.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICO
I thought he would never have ended; and I felt nettled that my remark should have given rise to such immoderate mirth.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO MIRTH

  • action
  • ball
  • beguilement
  • cheer
  • delight
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • field day
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • gladdening
  • gratification
  • grins
  • high time
  • hilarity
  • hoopla
  • laughs
  • laughter
  • merriment
  • merry-go-round
  • mirth
  • picnic
  • play
  • pleasing
  • pleasure
  • regalement
  • whoopee
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.