See Also: mirth(dictionary)
mirth(dictionary)

mirth (iou)



mirth noun.

Pleasurable feeling, enjoyment, gratification; happiness; (religious) joy. OE-L17.
b. A cause of joy. OE-LME.
Rejoicing; merrymaking; jollity, gaiety. ME.
W. Irving The genial festival of Christmas, which..lights up the..home with mirth and jollity.
A thing affording pleasure or amusement; a diversion, an (esp. musical) entertainment. Now rare. ME.
Merriment, hilarity, laughter. Formerly also, jocularity; ridicule. ME.
D. H. Lawrence Blue eyes..swimming over with laughter-tears, their clear cheeks were flushed crimson with mirth. S. Bellow Leventhal was smiling also, but without much mirth.
b. A cause of hilarity. ME-E18.
Comb.: mirthquake colloq. an extremely funny play, film, etc.
mirthsome adjective mirthful, joyous E19.