mirthful
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- mirthfull (archaic)
Etymology edit
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.
Adjective edit
mirthful (comparative mirthfuller or more mirthful, superlative mirthfullest or most mirthful)
- Filled with mirth.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 437:
- [T]he Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd; / To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]