Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mirth
IPA transcription: [m'ɝθ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness
    Meaning: great merriment
Usage examples
  • I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"
  • I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"
  • He seemed to be shaken with inner mirth.
  • Yet months previous, he had laid the foundation for her mirth.
  • By what mirth should the beards be made to wag on that Christmas Day?
  • It hurts no one, therefore, and provokes a great deal of innocent mirth.
  • As the wine mounted to their heads, in the mirth of drink and desperation, they enacted their own trial.
  • They rode to their hostel, and with the knights of their fellowship, passed the hours in mirth and revelry.
  • Mirth is the mail of anguish, In which it cautions arm, Lest anybody spy the blood And "You're hurt" exclaim!
  • Poor fellow!--as I thought of his wife, I wondered that he could have heart to put on even the semblance of mirth.