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Etymology
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.
Adjective
mirthful (comparative mirthfuller or more mirthful, superlative mirthfullest or most mirthful)
- Filled with mirth.
- Synonyms: happy, joyful
- Antonym: mirthless
1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson , and John Barber , →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 437:[T]he Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd; / To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]
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