Merriment

Quick meaning: Merriment is a noun meaning A state of enjoyable exuberance.

Meaning

A state of enjoyable exuberance.

More Meanings

1. Playful fun.

Example Sentences

It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.

Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?

For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?

Hugh laughed again, and with such thorough abandonment to his mad humour, that his limbs seemed dislocated, and his whole frame in danger of tumbling to pieces; but Mr Tappertit, so far from receiving this extreme merriment with any irritation, was pleased to regard it with the utmost favour, and even to join in it, so far as one of his gravity and station could, with any regard to that decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to maintain.

Word Forms

• merriments

Synonyms for merriment

Depending on context, synonyms include merriness, mirth, ardor, alacrity, celerity, energy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gaiety, fun, playfulness, jollity, jubilation, glee.

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