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Synonyms & Antonyms of mirth
a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter
- as charming as your mutual mirth is, could you refrain from nudging each other and giggling during class?
Synonyms for mirth
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- cheeriness,
- festivity,
- gaiety
- (also gayety),
- gayness,
- glee,
- gleefulness,
- hilarity,
- jocundity,
- joviality,
- merriment,
- merriness,
- mirthfulness
Words Related to mirth
- jollification,
- jollity,
- reveling
- (or revelling),
- revelry
- buffoonery,
- clownishness,
- flippancy,
- funning,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jocoseness,
- jocosity,
- jocularity,
- joking,
- joshing
- frolicking,
- gamboling
- (or gambolling),
- rollicking,
- romping
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