Word Meanings - MERRIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MERRIMENT)

• Joviality
• Merriment
• jollity
• mirth
• hilarity
• Joy
• Gladness
• pleasure
• delight
• happiness
• exultation
• transport
• felicity
• ecstasy
• rapture
• bites
• gaiety
• merriment
• festivity
• Jubilee
• Holiday
• feast
• rejoicing
• revel
• paean
• carnival
• high-day
• Sport
• Play
• frolic
• wantonness
• joke
• diversion
• fun
• amusement
• recreation
• game
• pastime

Related words: (words related to MERRIMENT)

• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• PAEAN
  1. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities. 2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. "Public pæans of congratulation." De Quincey. 3. See Pæon.
• FROLIC
  1. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth. He would be at his frolic once again. Roscommon. 2. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• HILARITY
  Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith. Note: Hilarity differs from joy: the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, produced by social pleasure, drinking, etc., which rouse the animal spirits,
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.