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mirthful - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | mirthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | merry |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, carefree, cheerful, cheery, convivial, enjoyable, entertaining, festive, frolicsome, funny, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lively, perky, playful, sunny, vivacious, blithesome, fun-loving, larking |
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| Main Entry: | blithe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, chirpy, gladsome |
| Antonyms: | heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | convivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fun-loving |
| Synonyms: | cheerful, companionable, entertaining, festive, friendly, gay, genial, happy, hearty, hilarious, holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, sociable, vivacious, back-slapping, clubby, conversible, festal, glad-handering |
| Antonyms: | blah, dull, serious, solemn, staid |
| Main Entry: | festive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decorated, celebratory |
| Synonyms: | blithe, carnival, cheery, chipper*, convivial, gala, gay, gleeful, happy, hearty, holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, jumping, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, peppy*, perky, snappy*, swinging, upbeat, zippy*, bouncy, carnivalesque, chirpy, festal, go-go, grooving, juiced up, rocking |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
| Antonyms: | depressed, gloomy, somber, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy, delightful |
| Synonyms: | animated, beaming, beautiful, blithesome, bright, can't complain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, contented, exhilarated, felicitous, floating on air, gay, genial, gleeful, gratified, gratifying, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, pleasant, pleased, pleased as punch, pleasing, radiant, rejoicing, sparkling, tickled, tickled pink*, tickled to death, up, willing |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gleeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy |
| Synonyms: | blithe, boon, cheerful, delighted, elated, exalted, exuberant, exultant, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, pleased, triumphant, blithesome, gratified |
| Antonyms: | discouraged, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, worried |
| Main Entry: | hilarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very funny |
| Synonyms: | amusing, comical, convivial, entertaining, exhilarated, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughable, lively, merry, mirthful, noisy, priceless, riot, rollicking, scream, uproarious, witty, gut-busting, side-splitting |
| Antonyms: | grave, serious, somber, tragic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | jolly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | laughing, joyful |
| Synonyms: | blithe, carefree, cheerful, chipper, convivial, daffy, delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, festive, frolicsome, funny, gay, gleeful, happy, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, sportive, sprightly, zippy*, blithesome, bouncy, chirpy, gladsome, jokey, joshing, larking, lots of laughs |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jovial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, airy, amiable, animated, blithe, buoyant, cheery, chipper, companionable, convivial, cordial, daffy*, delightful, dizzy*, enjoyable, facetious, festive, gay, glad, gleeful, good-natured, hilarious, humorous, jocose, jocund, jolly, jubilant, lighthearted, loony, merry, mirthful, nutty*, pleasant, sociable, bantering, blithesome, bouncy, chaffing, chirpy, conversable, festal, jokey, jollying, joshing, larking, lots of laughs, off-the-wall |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | laughable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily made fun of |
| Synonyms: | absurd, amusing, asinine, bizarre, camp, comic, comical, derisive, droll, eccentric, entertaining, facetious, fantastic, farcical, funny, hilarious, humorous, inane, jocose, jocular, ludicrous, mirthful, mocking, nonsensical, preposterous, rich, ridiculous, riot, risible, scream, unusual, witty, campy, derisory, diverting, gelastic, har-har, jokey, joshing |
| Antonyms: | grave, serious |
| Main Entry: | merry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy; festive |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, boisterous, boon, carefree, cheerful, comic, comical, convivial, enjoyable, entertaining, facetious, frolicsome, funny, gay, glad, gleeful, hilarious, humorous, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, jumping, lighthearted, lively, mad, mirthful, perky, pleasant, riotous, rollicking, sportive, sunny, uproarious, vivacious, wild, winsome, zippy*, blithesome, fun-loving, grooving, larking, rip-roaring, rocking, saturnalian, unconstrained, zappy, zingy |
| Antonyms: | grave, sad, serious, sorrowful, unhappy, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | playful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, fun-loving |
| Synonyms: | antic, blithe, cheerful, coltish, comical, elvish, feeling one's oats, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, full of pep, gamesome, gay, good-natured, impish, jaunty, jesting, jocund, joking, joyous, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, mischievous, prankish, puckish, rollicking, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, teasing, tongue-in-cheek*, vivacious, waggish, whimsical, zippy* |
| Antonyms: | humorless, serious, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | waggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, bubbly, cheerful, comical, frolicsome, funny, gay, humorous, jaunty, jesting, jocular, jocund, joking, jolly, joyous, kittenish, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, snappy, spirited, teasing, whimsical, witty, clowning, gamesome |
| Main Entry: | funny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comical, humorous |
| Synonyms: | absurd, amusing, antic, blithe, capricious, clever, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, gas*, gay, good-humored, hilarious, humdinger, hysterical, jocose, jocular, joking, jolly, killing*, laughable, ludicrous, merry, mirthful, playful, priceless, rich, ridiculous, riot, riotous, risible, silly, slapstick, sportive, waggish, whimsical, witty, diverting, for grins, gelastic, knee-slapper, screaming, side-splitting |
| Antonyms: | dramatic, melancholy, sad, serious, tragic, unamusing, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | alert, animate, animated, blithe, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper*, confident, convivial, devil-may-care*, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy*, blithesome, bouncy, chirpy, fun-loving, gamesome, pleasure-seeking |
| Antonyms: | depressed, discouraged, sad, unhappy, upset, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in high spirits; satisfied |
| Synonyms: | blessed, blest, blissful, blithe, can't complain, captivated, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, content, contented, convivial, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exultant, flying high, gay, glad, gleeful, gratified, intoxicated, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, light, lively, looking good, merry, mirthful, on cloud nine*, overjoyed, peaceful, peppy, perky, playful, pleasant, pleased, sparkling, sunny, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink*, up, upbeat, walking on air |
| Antonyms: | depressed, discouraged, dissatisfied, miserable, morose, pained, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effervescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, vivacious |
| Synonyms: | animated, brash, bubbly, buoyant, ebullient, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, irrepressible, jolly, joyous, lively, merry, mirthful, sprightly, vital, bouncy, in high spirits, zingy |
| Antonyms: | dull, inactive, serious, sober, unenthusiastic |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
hopeful, light, Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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