Adjective: frolic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more frolic |
| Superlative | most frolic |
Sample Sentences
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The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,
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Zephyr with Aurora playing,
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As he met her once a Maying
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There on Beds of Violets blew, [1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, page 31:]
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For women, born to be controul’d,
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Stoop to the forward and the bold,
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Affect the haughty and the proud,
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The gay, the frollick, and the loud. [1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, 5th edition, London: H. Herringman, published 1686, page 73:]
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You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...] [1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:]
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Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...]. [1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:]
Adjectives inflected like frolic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).
2. The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like. See: Dutch Adjectives '
vrolijk', German Adjectives '
fröhlich'.
Verbs referencing "frolic"
German Adjectives
froh.