merry

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See also: Merry and Merrý

English

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: -ɛɹi
Hyphenation: mer‧ry

Etymology 1

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-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.

Alternative forms

(obsolete) merrie, (obsolete) mery

Adjective

merry (comparative merrier, superlative merriest)

Jolly and full of high spirits.
We had a very merry Christmas.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  I am neuer merry when I heare ſweet muſique.
Festive and full of fun and laughter.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
  If I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
Everyone was merry at the party.
Brisk
The play moved along at a merry pace.
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
a merry jest
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 171:
  There eke my feeble barke a while may ſtay, / Till mery wynd and weather call her thence away.
(euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

Synonyms

(jolly): cheerful, content, ecstatic, exultant, gay, happy, jovial, joyful, pleased; see also Thesaurus:happy
(festive): convivial, gay, jovial
(brisk): energetic, lively, spirited; see also Thesaurus:animated
(causing laughter): delightful, gladful
(drunk): lushy, muzzy, squiffy; see also Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

(jolly): miserable, unhappy

Derived terms

Merry Christmas

Translations

jolly and full of high-spirits

Arabic: مَرِح (mariḥ), فَرِح (ar) (fariḥ)
Belarusian: вясё́лы (vjasjóly), ра́ды (rády)
Bulgarian: весел (bg) (vesel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài)
Czech: veselý (cs)
Dutch: vrolijk (nl)
Faroese: kátur
Finnish: hauska (fi)
French: joyeux (fr)
German: fröhlich (de), froh (de), gut gelaunt (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἱλαρός (hilarós)
Hebrew: שמח (he) m (saméah)
Hungarian: vidám (hu)
Ido: joyoza (io), joyala (io)
Irish: sona
Italian: allegro (it)
Japanese: 陽気 (ja) (ようき, yōki)
Korean: 즐거운 (ko) (jeulgeoun)
Latin: laetus (la), gaudens, hilaris (la)
Macedonian: весел (vesel)
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Middle English: mery
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: веселъ (veselŭ)
Persian: شادکام (fa) (šâdkâm), سرمست (fa) (sarmast)
Polish: wesoły (pl)
Portuguese: alegre (pt)
Russian: весёлый (ru) (vesjólyj), ра́достный (ru) (rádostnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ве̏сео

Roman: vȅseo (sh)
Slovak: veselý
Slovene: vesel (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjasoły
Spanish: alegre (es)
Swedish: munter (sv)
Turkish: neşe (tr)
Ukrainian: весе́лий (vesélyj)
Vietnamese: vui (vi)
West Frisian: merie
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festive and full of fun and laughter

Finnish: hauska (fi)
Hebrew: שמח (he) m (saméah), עליז (he) m (alíz)
Latin: festus, festivus
Middle English: mery, gameful
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Persian: شاد (fa) (šâd)
Portuguese: festivo (pt)
Russian: весёлый (ru) m (vesjólyj)
Spanish: festivo (es) m

brisk

Hebrew: ערני m (eraní), נמרץ (he) m (nimráts)
Middle English: mery
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Persian: تند (fa) (tond)
Russian: живо́й (ru) m (živój), оживлённый (ru) m (oživljónnyj), энерги́чный (ru) m (energíčnyj)

Derived terms

Related terms

mirth

Etymology 2

French merise

Noun

merry (plural merries)

An English wild cherry.

Anagrams

Rymer

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