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Definition: Mirthful |
MirthfulAdjective1. 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". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mirthful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: MirthfulSynonyms: amusing (adj), comic (adj), comical (adj), funny (adj), gay (adj), jocund (adj), jolly (adj), jovial (adj), laughable (adj), merry (adj), risible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mirthful |
| English words defined with "mirthful": amusing ♦ Cadgy, comic, comical ♦ funny ♦ gay ♦ jocund, jolly, jovial ♦ laughable ♦ merry ♦ risible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mirthful": LAUGH. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mirthful man telling story to four people. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mirthful Mars. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. |
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| "Mirthful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mirthful" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mirthful": merry mirthful. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "mirthful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i qeshur (gay, genial, jovial, smiling), i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festal, festive, frolic, frolicsome, gleeful, hilarious, joyful), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, oared, sprightly), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, perky, riant, set up, zippy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радостен (cheerful, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jocund, joyful, joyous, lightsome, lusty, merry), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome). (various references) | |
Czech | veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious). (various references) | |
German | fröhlich (blithe, blithesome, bright, brightly, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, festive, gay, gladly, gladsome, gleeful, happily, happy, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, jovially, joyous, lighthearted, liltingly, merrily, merry, mirthfully, upbeat). (various references) | |
Greek | εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, resilient, sprightly, zippy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, playful, sprightly), "ולל (licentious, profligate, rake, rakish, unruly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits). (various references) | |
Italian | gaio (airy, blithesome, frolicsome, gay, jolly, lightsome, merry, rorty, wanton), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references) | |
Manx | reagh (amorous, blithe, frisky, frolicsome, lecherous, playful, randy, sportive), gennal (amiable, blithe, blithesome, cheerful, convivial, gay, genial, good-humoured, jocular, jolly, jovial). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irthfulmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jubiloso (joyous, jubilant, triumphant), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), contente (canty, content, contented, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, jolly, joyful, pleased, satisfied, triumphant), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, saucy), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), bucuros (beatific, beatifical, cheerful, content, delighted, exhilarated, fain, gay, glad, gladly, gratified, lief, merry, pleased, readily, thankful, willingly, with a good grace). (various references) | |
Russian | радостный (glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, merry, roseate), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), razdragan (full of beans, gleeful). (various references) | |
Spanish | alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references) | |
Swedish | munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, sprightly). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไป"้วยความรื่นเริง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sevinçli (elated, glad, gladsome, happy, jovial, joyful, joyous, rejoicing), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, sportive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, pleasant, sportful), vui (amusing, diverting, merrily, merry, pleasant), cười đùa. (various references) | |
Welsh | digrif (funny, humorous), afieithus (gleeful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mirthful": mirthfully, mirthfulness, mirthfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Mirthful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mabthul, mirthfull, mittful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mirthful" (pronounced 'Mirth"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-i-l-m-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: filth, filum, firth, flirt, frith, fruit, hilum, mirth, mufti, thirl, thrum, thurl. | |
-4 letters: film, firm, flit, frit, furl, hilt, hurl, hurt, lift, litu, milt, rift, ruth, thir, thru, tirl, trim, turf. | |
-5 letters: fil, fir, fit, flu, fur, him, hit, hum, hut, lit, lum, mil, mir, mut, rif, rim, rum, rut, til, tui. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-i-l-m-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: mirthfully. | |
+4 letters: mirthfulness. | |
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