Adjective: mirthful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | mirthfuller |
| Superlative | mirthfullest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mirthful |
| Superlative | most mirthful |
Sample Sentences
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[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:]
Adjectives inflected like mirthful
sinful,
painful,
playful,
mournful,
mirthful,
healthful,
awful,
yuriful,
hateful,
harmful,
useful,
joyful,
grateful,
Etymology
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.