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merry
1[ mer-ee ]
adjective
- full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit:
a merry little man.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
Antonyms:
- laughingly happy; mirthful; festively joyous; hilarious:
a merry time at the party.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- Archaic. causing happiness; pleasant; delightful.
Merry
2[ mer-ee ]
noun
- a female given name.
merry
/ ˈɛɪ /
adjective
- cheerful; jolly
- very funny; hilarious
- informal.slightly drunk
- archaic.delightful
- make merryto revel; be festive
- play merry hell with informal.to disturb greatly; disrupt
Pronunciation Note
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adverb
- ˈԱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ·· adverb
- ··Ա noun
- o·ver··· adverb
- o·ver···Ա noun
- ··· adjective
- un··· adverb
- ܲ·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of merry1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of merry1
Idioms and Phrases
- make merry, Older Use.
- to be happy or festive:
The New Year's revelers were making merry in the ballroom.
- to make fun of; ridicule:
The unthinking children made merry of the boy who had no shoes.
Example Sentences
"If you're selling tickets for a living, the more the merrier."
Meanwhile, Snow White’s signature costume is so brightly saturated that it’s blinding; it appears especially bizarre when she tromps around the woods with a hoodie-clad Jonathan and his troupe of merry Brooklyn bicycle messengers.
At Christmas, astronauts on the International Space Station posted a festive message in which they wished their friends and family on Earth a merry Christmas.
Once more it was on the edge where Scotland made merry, this after Wales made a mess of an exit.
But like generations of pilgrims, dropouts, and merry pranksters before him, what he discovered on that journey was his mission.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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