Merry Definition

mĕrē
merrier, merriest
adjective
merrier, merriest
Full of fun and laughter; lively and cheerful.
Webster's New World
Conducive to fun and laughter; festive.
The merry month of May.
Webster's New World
Brisk.
A merry pace.
American Heritage
Pleasant or amusing.
Webster's New World

Festive and full of fun and laughter.

Everyone was merry at the party.
Wiktionary
pronoun

A surname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.

Wiktionary

A female given name from the adjective, also a diminutive of Mary and Mercy.

Wiktionary

A male given name, a diminutive of Meredith.

Wiktionary
idiom
make merry
  • to be festive and full of gaiety; have fun
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Merry

Adjective

Base Form:
merry
Comparative:
merrier
Superlative:
merriest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Merry

Origin of Merry

  • From Middle English merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, from Old English meriÄ¡e, miriÄ¡e, myriÄ¡e, myreÄ¡e, myrÄ¡e (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious"), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow"), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short"). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry"), Old High German murg, murgi ("short, brief"; > German murk (“short, lazy")), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine"), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English merri from Old English mirige pleasant mregh-u- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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