Reverse Dictionary: MIRTH

ADJECTIVES
► FESTIVOUS festive, jovial, merry, gay, mirthful → 1654
► GAY of persons, their attributes, and actions: full of joy and mirth; light-hearted, exuberantly cheerful, sportive, merry → a1310
► HEARTSOME full of mirth, merry, cheerful, lively, light-hearted, joyous; pleasant, genial → 1724 chiefly Sc.
► JOCANT mirthful, merry, gay, jocund → c1440 obs.
► JOCOCIOUS jocose, mirthful; humorous, fond of joking → 1790 Eng. dial.
► JUCUND jocund, mirthful, cheerful, merry, blithe, gay, sprightly, light-hearted; pleasant, delightful → 1596 obs.
► LAUGHFUL full of laughing; mirthful → 1825
► LAUGHSOME of persons: addicted to laughing, mirthful → 1620
► RIANT smiling, laughing, mirthful, cheerful, gay → 1567

NOUNS
► BAUDERIE ► BAUDERY gaiety, jollity, mirth → c1386 obs.
► DAFT-DAYS days of mirth and amusement; Yuletide → 1816 Sc.
► DAFTRIE fun and frolic; mirth → 1866 Sc. obs.
► GALDERS noisy mirth → 1898 Sc.
► GALE singing, a song; merriment; mirth → c1200 obs.
► GALLAFER noisy, boisterous jollification; loud mirth → 1898 Sc.
► GALLIARDISE gaiety, mirth, revelry; also, a merry trick → c1570 arch.
► GALLIARDISM gaiety, mirth, revelry → 1745
► GAME AND GLEE amusement, delight, fun, mirth, sport → a1200 obs.
► JOLLIMENT mirth, merriment, jollity, gaiety → 1590 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MAN-DREAM human joy, loud mirth → c1205 obs.

VERBS
► RAFF to be full of mirth or fun; to abound with boisterous good spirits → 1824 Sc.