mirth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).
Base: merry
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: mirths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.
And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
All these acquaintances he observed with difficulty concealing their mirth at something; the same mirth that he had perceived in the lawyer's eyes, and just now in the eyes of this groom.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
gloss: That which causes merriment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
Derived words: mirthful
mirthfully
mirthfulness
mirthless
mirthlessly
mirthlessness
mirthquake
mirthsome
mirthy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: веселие
roman: veselie
lang: Bulgarian
word: радост
roman: radost
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 歡笑 /欢笑
roman: huānxiào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 愉快
roman: yúkuài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高興 /高兴
roman: gāoxìng
lang: Czech
word: veselí
lang: Danish
word: munterhed
lang: Danish
word: fryd
lang: Danish
word: glæde
lang: Dutch
word: vrolijkheid
lang: Esperanto
word: gajeco
lang: Finnish
word: ilo
lang: Finnish
word: hilpeys
lang: French
word: gaieté
lang: Georgian
word: მხიარულება
roman: mxiaruleba
lang: Georgian
word: სიმხიარულე
roman: simxiarule
lang: Georgian
word: სიხარული
roman: sixaruli
lang: German
word: Fröhlichkeit
lang: German
word: Belustigung
lang: German
word: Freude
lang: Greek
word: ευθυμία
roman: efthymía
lang: Greek
word: κέφι
roman: kéfi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: εὐφροσύνη
roman: euphrosúnē
lang: Hebrew
word: צהלול
lang: Italian
word: gioia
lang: Italian
word: allegria
lang: Japanese
word: 笑い
roman: warai
lang: Japanese
word: 遊び
roman: asobi
lang: Japanese
word: 喜び
roman: yorokobi
lang: Japanese
word: 歓楽
roman: kanraku
lang: Malayalam
word: ആഹ്ലാദം
roman: āhlādaṁ
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Freid
lang: Portuguese
word: alegria
lang: Portuguese
word: júbilo
lang: Russian
word: ра́дость
roman: rádostʹ
lang: Russian
word: весе́лье
roman: vesélʹje
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sogan
lang: Spanish
word: felicidad
lang: Spanish
word: alegría
lang: Spanish
word: júbilo
lang: Swedish
word: munterhet
lang: Swedish
word: glädje
lang: Tagalog
word: kasayahan
lang: Tagalog
word: katuwaan
lang: Tagalog
word: kaligayahan
lang: Ukrainian
word: веселощі
roman: veselošči
lang: Ukrainian
word: радість
roman: radistʹ