Merry

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  • adjective. Full of cheerfulness, liveliness, and good feelings.
  • adjective. Marked by or offering fun, good feelings, and liveliness; festive.
  • adjective. Brisk.
  • adjective. Delightful or pleasing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make merry or glad; please; gratify; delight.
  • Merrily; in a lively manner.
  • Exciting feelings of enjoyment and. gladness; causing cheerfulness or light-heartedness; pleasant; delightful; happy: as, the merry month of May; a merry spectacle.
  • Playfully cheerful or gay; enlivened with gladness or good spirits; mirthful in speech or action; frolicsome; hilarious; jubilant: as, a merry company.
  • Sportive and mirthful in quality or character; jocund; jovial; rollicking; funny: as, a merry heart; a merry song.
  • Brisk; lively; cheery.
  • Full of gibes: sneering; sarcastic.
  • noun. The wild cherry of England, Prunus avium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of wild red cherry.
  • adjective. Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play; sportive.
  • adjective. Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
  • adjective. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
  • adjective. See under Dancer.
  • adjective. followers; retainers.
  • adjective. to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Jolly and full of high spirits
  • adjective. Festive and full of fun and laughter
  • adjective. Brisk
  • adjective. happy or showing enjoyment
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. quick and energetic
  • adjective. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  • adjective. offering fun and gaiety
  • Word Usage
    "But ere morning broke in upon them, many of the merry group were lying in a beastly state under the chairs and tables, or others had gone to bed; but this is what _they_ called spending a _merry night_."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    Equivalent
    energetic  joyous  
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie  Azeri  Barrie  Barry  Berri  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    merrier  merriest