Mirth
noun
Happiness and laughter.
The room was filled with mirth and good cheer during the holiday.
Often appears as...
- burst of mirth
- mirth and laughter
noun
Happiness and laughter.
The room was filled with mirth and good cheer during the holiday.
Often appears as...
- burst of mirth
- mirth and laughter
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Mirth implies a deep, joyful emotion often shown with laughter.
His joke was met with great mirth.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Settings
Use 'mirth' to describe lively joy in groups, like parties or family gatherings.
There was an air of mirth at the reunion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sarcastic
Mirth is genuine happiness, not sarcastic or mocking laughter.
Her mirth was contagious, and soon everyone was laughing.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Mirth implies a deep, joyful emotion often shown with laughter.
His joke was met with great mirth.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Settings
Use 'mirth' to describe lively joy in groups, like parties or family gatherings.
There was an air of mirth at the reunion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sarcastic
Mirth is genuine happiness, not sarcastic or mocking laughter.
Her mirth was contagious, and soon everyone was laughing.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Mirth implies a deep, joyful emotion often shown with laughter.
His joke was met with great mirth.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Settings
Use 'mirth' to describe lively joy in groups, like parties or family gatherings.
There was an air of mirth at the reunion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sarcastic
Mirth is genuine happiness, not sarcastic or mocking laughter.
Her mirth was contagious, and soon everyone was laughing.
Compare with
amusementcheerfulgleehilarjocularityjollityjovialityjoyfullaughtermerriment
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the music stops. New passengers get on, and the current passengers get to witness the new passengers -- their surprise -- as they hear the elevator music for the first time. You experience the shift of adults standing silently, strangers in an elevator, to attempting to suppress their mirth,
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The health benefits of...
the music stops. New passengers get on, and the current passengers get to witness the new passengers -- their surprise -- as they hear the elevator music for the first time. You experience the shift of adults standing silently, strangers in an elevator, to attempting to suppress their mirth,
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Donkey Escape Artist PIPE...
to the suit mirth Donkey Sanctuary in Devon for the tale of Sam the donkey and
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Quote examples
James Thurber
American Author
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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Roald Dahl
British Novelist
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
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Benjamin Rush
American Scientist
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Izaak Walton
English Writer
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
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George Ade
American Playwright
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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Agnes Repplier
American Writer
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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James Thurber
American Author
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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Roald Dahl
British Novelist
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
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Benjamin Rush
American Scientist
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Izaak Walton
English Writer
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
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George Ade
American Playwright
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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Agnes Repplier
American Writer
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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