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  • 1. mirth
  • Rhymes with Mirth
  • Mirth in a sentence
  • Quotes about Mirth
Table of Contents
  • 1. mirth
  • Rhymes with Mirth
  • Mirth in a sentence
  • Quotes about Mirth
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. mirth

noun. ['ˈmɝːθ'] great merriment.

Synonyms

  • glee
  • mirthfulness
  • merriment
  • gaiety
  • hilarity

Antonyms

  • sadness
  • gravity

Etymology

  • myrgþ (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

Rhymes with Mirth

  • wentworth
  • rebirth
  • unearth
  • fuerth
  • wurth
  • worth
  • wirth
  • werth
  • perth
  • kurth
  • kerth
  • hirth
  • girth
  • gerth
  • furth
  • firth
  • dearth
  • birth
  • berth
  • earth

Sentences with mirth


1. Noun, singular or mass
Jews celebrate an entire month of mirth.

Quotes about mirth


1. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

2. Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion

3. Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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