adj
Meaning 1
Filled with mirth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: happy, joyful
Antonyms: mirthless
Standard Lemma guide
mirthful
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Meaning 2
arousing or provoking laughter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
full of or showing high-spirited merriment- Wordsworth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- when hearts were young and gay
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.