mirthful

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. arousing or provoking laughter
- an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls
- an amusing fellow
- a comic hat
- a comical look of surprise
- funny stories that made everybody laugh
- a very funny writer
- it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much
- a mirthful experience
- risible courtroom antics
• Syn:
amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible
• Similar to:
humorous, humourous
• Derivationally related forms:
risibility (for: risible), mirthfulness, laugh (for: laughable), fun (for: funny), funniness (for: funny), comicality (for: comical), comedy (for: comical), comic (for: comic), comedy (for: comic)
2. 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
- peals of merry laughter
- a mirthful laugh
• Syn:
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry
• Similar to:
joyous
• Derivationally related forms:
mirthfulness, merriness (for: merry), joviality (for: jovial), jolly (for: jolly), jolliness (for: jolly), jollity (for: jolly), jocundity (for: jocund)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible, gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry