Definition of gayety

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Gayety (a.) The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season..

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Mirth :: Mirth (n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
Frolic :: Frolic (v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport..
Lilt :: Lilt (v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness..
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance..
Riant :: Riant (a.) Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape..
Frolicsome :: Frolicsome (a.) Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
Frolicly :: Frolicly (adv.) In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.
Festivity :: Festivity (n.) The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
Merriment :: Merriment (n.) Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic..
Disport :: Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Gaiety :: Gaiety (n.) Same as Gayety.
Frolic :: Frolic (n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking..
Glee :: Glee (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast..
Sprightly :: Sprightliness (n.) The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
Joy :: Joy (n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
Sardonic :: Sardonic (a.) Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety..
Waggery :: Waggery (n.) The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy..
Pleasantry :: Pleasantry (n.) That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage..
Frisk :: Frisk (a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
Blitheful :: Blitheful (a.) Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
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