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MIRTHFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mirthful mean?
• MIRTHFUL (adjective)
The adjective MIRTHFUL has 2 senses:
1. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
2. arousing or provoking laughter
Familiarity information: MIRTHFUL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of or showing high-spirited merriment
Synonyms:
gay; jocund; jolly; jovial; merry; mirthful
Context example:
a mirthful laugh
Similar:
joyous (full of or characterized by joy)
Derivation:
mirthfulness (great merriment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arousing or provoking laughter
Synonyms:
amusing; comic; comical; funny; laughable; mirthful; risible
Context example:
risible courtroom antics
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Derivation:
mirthfulness (great merriment)
Context examples
At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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