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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 merrimentplay

2. arousing or provoking laughterplay

  Familiarity information: MIRTHFUL used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MIRTHFUL (adjective)


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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