merry
Plural: merries
Adjective Satellite
- full of or showing high-spirited merriment; ; - Wordsworth
- "have a merry Christmas"
- "peals of merry laughter"
- offering fun and gaiety
- "a merry evening"
- quick and energetic
- "a merry chase"
Adj
- Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
- Festive and full of fun and laughter.
- Brisk
- Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
- drunk; tipsy
Noun
- An English wild cherry.
Adjective
- Cheerful and lively; festive and joyous.
Examples
- a merry jest
- Everyone was merry at the party.
- He made a MERRY play that lightened the mood of the intense game.
- Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.
- The car moved at a merry clip.
- The play moved along at a merry pace.
- We had a very merry Christmas.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mery, merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, from Old English meriġe, miriġe, myriġe, myreġe, myrġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.
Synonyms
alert, brisk, festal, festive, gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, mirthful, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy, active, cheerful, content, convivial, delightful, drunk, ecstatic, energetic, exultant, gladful, happy, joyful, lushy, muzzy, pleased, spirited, squiffy
Scrabble Score: 10
merry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmerry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
merry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary