merry

[mer·ry]

To be merry is to be happy, especially in a fun, festive way. Parties and celebrations are merry, and so are the fun people who attend them. This old fashioned word for “happy” is popular in December when people say, “Merry Christmas.”

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Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

Adjective S.
quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

Adjective S.
offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"

Adjective S.
full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"


superl.
Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

superl.
Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.

superl.
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

n.
A kind of wild red cherry.


Merry

Mer"ry , a. [Compar. Merrier ; superl. Merriest.] [OE. merie, mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gama'a3rgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and English meanings coming from the idea of making the time seem short. Cf. Mirth.] 1. Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
They drank, and were merry with him.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
2. Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
Is any merry let him sing psalms.
3. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, merry jest. "Merry wind and weather." Spenser. Merry dancers. See under Dancer. -- Merry men, followers; retainers. [Obs.]
His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee.
-- To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. Judg. ix. 27.
Syn. -- Cheerful; blithe; lively; sprightly; vivacious; gleeful; joyous; mirthful; jocund; sportive; hilarious.

Merry

Mer"ry , n. (Bot.) A kind of wild red cherry.

Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

A kind of wild red cherry.

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Usage Examples

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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Other Usage Examples

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

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