mirth

noungreat joy

Synonyms for mirth

noun great joy

Antonyms for mirth

blitheness

noun. gaiety

Word Origin & History

Old English myrgð "joy, pleasure," from Proto-Germanic *murgitha (cf. Middle Dutch merchte), noun of quality from *murgjo- (see merry; also see -th (2)). Mirthquake "entertainment that excites convulsive laughter" first attested 1928, in reference to Harold Lloyd movies.

Example Sentences for mirth

In vain the Woman Perfect struggled to subdue her mirth to penitence.

Chip made haste to stifle his mirth, in fear that she was going to cry.

Angelique interrupted him by laughing gaily, and he joined her in her mirth for a moment.

Among the desperate there is almost invariably a tendency to mirth.

The two Ricardis laughed; but instantly restrained their mirth.

In many of the houses which we passed could be heard sounds of mirth and gaiety.

Grief is not an inmate of the plain; the hours of the shepherd are sped in gaiety and mirth.

She could not away with the freedom of society, and the levity of mirth.

There was no mirth in his expression, and McBain understood.

Hermione made a sound that was like a little laugh, behind which there was no mirth.

mirth

Synonyms for mirth

Antonyms for mirth

blitheness

blithesomeness

cheer

cheerfulness

cheers

mirth

Synonyms for mirth

Antonyms for mirth

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