mirth
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mirth
- /mɜɹθ/ US
- [mɝθ] US
- /mɜːθ/ UK
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Where it comes from
From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrgþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).
noun mirths
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The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
Similar: merriment, delight, glee, hilarity, jollity, gaiety, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness · Opposite: sadness, gloom, mirthless, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress
- That which causes merriment. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
Translations
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noun merriment
| Español | felicidad, alegría, júbilo |
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| 日本語 | 笑い warai, 遊び asobi, 喜び yorokobi, 歓楽 kanraku |
| 中文 | 歡笑 /欢笑 huānxiào, 愉快 yúkuài, 高興 /高兴 gāoxìng |
| Português | alegria, júbilo |
| Français | gaieté |
| Deutsch | Fröhlichkeit, Belustigung, Freude |
| Italiano | gioia, allegria |
| Ελληνικά | ευθυμία efthymía, κέφι kéfi |
| Русский | ра́дость rádostʹ, весе́лье vesélʹje |
| עברית | צהלול |
noun that which causes merriment
| 中文 | 逗樂物 /逗乐物 |
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