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mirthsome

mirthsome adjective: full of mirth.

Adjective

mirthsome (comparative more mirthsome, superlative most mirthsome)

  1. Full of mirth.
    • The violets blow, and mirthsome birds / With wild song fill the air1823 March, Nalla, “Riley Grave-Stones”, in The London Magazine, London: Taylor & Hessey, Eyam Banks, page 284
    • Every Russian noble, […] may appear as gay as a released bird, because the Muscovite improvidence of character allows him to feel mirthsome with the prospect of immediate enjoyment before him, and the certainty of the evil day of reckoning being a year or two removed; but when he is returning...1845, Charles Frederick Henningsen, “The Secret Police”, in Revelations of Russia, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, page 205

Examples of mirthsome in a sentence

  • The "Worship of Venus," in the bright and varied scale of its tones, and the brilliant play of its lights, is a conception of a gleeful and mirthsome stamp.1877, Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, chapter 6, in Titian: His Life and Times, volume 1, London: John Murray, page...
  • They bid me laugh, and with mirthsome wiles / And the laughing jests of the free and gay, / They seek to call to my face the smiles / That mock the joy that is far away.1889 May 17, Burdette, The Harvard Lampoon, volume 17, number 7, Cambridge, page 110:

Synonyms of mirthsome

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Forms of mirthsome

comparativemore mirthsome
superlativemost mirthsome

Origin of mirthsome

From mirth + -some.

Words formed from mirthsome

Questions about mirthsome

What does mirthsome mean?
Mirthsome means full of mirth.
How do you use mirthsome in a sentence?
The "Worship of Venus," in the bright and varied scale of its tones, and the brilliant play of its lights, is a conception of a gleeful and mirthsome stamp.
What part of speech is mirthsome?
Mirthsome is an adjective.

Words near mirthsome in the dictionary

  1. mirthlessly
  2. mirthlessness
  3. mirthquake
  4. mirthquakes
  5. mirths
  6. mirthsome
  7. mirthsomeness
  8. mirthy
  9. mirtron
  10. mirtrons
  11. mirudhangam

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