mirthful
adjEtymology From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.
1
Filled with mirth.
- [T]he Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd; / To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]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:
- Derived terms
- mirthfully, mirthfulness, unmirthful