What are some opposite words for merry?
Antonyms for merry
ˈmɛr imer·ry
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term merry.
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merryadjective
Synonyms:
happy, content, pleased, gay, cheerful, ecstatic, joyful, exultant, jovialmerryadjective
Jolly and full of high-spirits
We had a very merry Christmas.
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gay, exultant, content, pleased, happy, joyful, jovial, ecstatic, cheerfulmerryadjective
Festive and full of fun and laughter
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joyful, gay, happy, exultant, ecstatic, content, cheerful, jovial, pleasedmerryadjective
Brisk
The play moved along at a merry pace.
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jovial, happy, exultant, content, gay, joyful, ecstatic, pleased, cheerfulmerryadjective
happy or showing enjoyment
Synonyms:
happy, gay, jovial, content, pleased, ecstatic, exultant, cheerful, joyful
English Synonyms and Antonyms
merry
Happy primarily refers to something that comes "by good hap," a chance that brings prosperity, benefit, or success.
And grasps the skirts of happy chance.
Tennyson In Memoriam lxiii, st. 2.In this sense happy is closely allied to fortunate and lucky. (See FORTUNATE.) Happy has, however, so far diverged from this original sense as to apply to advantages where chance is not recognized, or is even excluded by direct reference to the divine will, when it becomes almost equivalent to blessed.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.
Job v, 17.
Happy is also applied to the ready dexterity or skill by which favorable results (usually in minor matters) are secured, when it becomes a synonym for dexterous, felicitous, and the associated words; as, he has a happy wit; happy at retort (compare CLEVER). In its most frequent present use, happy is applied to the state of one enjoying happiness, or to that by which happiness is expressed; as, a happy heart; a happy face; happy laughter; happy tears (compare synonyms for HAPPINESS). Cheerful applies to the possession or expression of a moderate and tranquil happiness. A cheery word spontaneously gives cheer to others; a cheering word is more distinctly planned to cheer and encourage. Gay applies to an effusive and superficial happiness (often not really worthy of that name) perhaps resulting largely from abundant animal spirits: we speak of gay revelers or a gay horse. A buoyant spirit is, as it were, borne up by joy and hope. A sunny disposition has a constant tranquil brightness that irradiates all who come within its influence.
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Synonyms:
blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, cheery, delighted, delightful, dexterous, felicitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, lucky, mirthful, pleased, prosperous, rapturous, rejoiced, rejoicing, smiling, sprightly, successful, sunnyPreposition:
A happy event for him; happy at a reply; happy in his home, with his friends, among his children; happy at the discovery, over his success.
Princeton's WordNet
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfuladjective
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
"when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
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unenrgetic, lethargic, joylessSynonyms:
spanking, festal, comic, laughable, jocund, jovial, festive, brave, rattling, risible, braw, zippy, comical, sunny, funny, lively, gay, cheery, mirthful, amusing, homophile(a), snappy, brisk, alert, jollygay, festal, festive, merryadjective
offering fun and gaiety
"a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
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joyless, lethargic, unenrgeticSynonyms:
spanking, festal, jocund, jovial, festive, brave, rattling, braw, zippy, sunny, lively, gay, cheery, mirthful, homophile(a), snappy, brisk, alert, jollyalert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippyadjective
quick and energetic
"a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"
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unenrgetic, joyless, lethargicSynonyms:
jovial, natty, marvelous, festive, rattling(a), brisk, wondrous, nipping, peppy, spruce, resilient, mirthful, jocund, frosty, festal, tremendous, grand, marvellous, snappy, live, racy, bouncing, watchful, lively, bouncy, wonderful, dapper, jolly, gay, spanking, springy, alive(p), tonic, fresh, awake(p), nippy, raffish, jaunty, fantastic, alert, terrific, spiffy, rakish, rattling, snappish, howling(a), refreshful, dashing, spirited, full of life, bracing, crisp, whipping, refreshing, zippy, vital
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use merry in a sentence?
Our veterans stare down the most hostile threats to freedom the world has ever known, but I’m pretty sure the words ‘Merry Christmas’ are not one of them.
We're going to start saying Merry Christmas again! how about all those department stores they have the bells and they have the red walls and they have the snow but they don't have Merry Christmas? I think they're going to start putting up Merry Christmas.
So much more to share, all I can say is that Nick was my rock through the most intense yet empowering natural water birth. It was nothing but POWERFUL Merry Christmas!!!! THANK YOU GOD.
You get trapped in a merry-go-round of screening procedures.
It started with my taking my two kids around to the zoos and parks, while they were on the merry-go-round riding 40 times or something, I'd be sitting there trying to figure out what you could do that would be more imaginative.
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