Definition of merry

"merry" in the adjective sense

1. gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful

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"

2. gay, festal, festive, merry

offering fun and gaiety

"a festive (or festal) occasion"

"gay and exciting night life"

"a merry evening"

3. alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy

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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Quotations for merry

Be merry and wise. [ Proverb ]

Merry meet, merry part. [ Proverb ]

Money is a merry fellow. [ Proverb ]

Be merry if you are wise. [ Martial ]

A merry heart goes all the day,
A sad tires in a mile. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let's be merry. [ G. Wither ]

The oil and wine of merry meeting. [ Washington Irving ]

Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. [ William Shakespeare ]

Children and fools have merry lives. [ Proverb ]

All are not merry that dance lightly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will.
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. [ Scott ]

Penny in pocket is a merry companion. [ Proverb ]

Heaven give you many, many merry days! [ William Shakespeare ]

Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no man delights in a sorrowful man. [ Proverb ]

A merry companion is music in a journey. [ Proverb ]

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. [ William Shakespeare ]

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

As long lives the merry heart as the sad. [ Proverb ]

His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]

One fair day in winter makes not birds merry. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In her days, every man shall eat in safety.
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry song of peace to all his neighbours. [ William Shakespeare ]

Merry is the company till the reckoning comes. [ Proverb ]

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. [ William Shakespeare ]

How oft, when men are at the point of death.
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death. [ William Shakespeare ]

So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like to the time of the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dance, laugh, and be merry; but be also innocent. [ Theodore Barriere ]

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. [ William Shakespeare ]

Can a jackanapes be merry when a clog is at his heels? [ Proverb ]

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. [ William Shakespeare ]

Three are too many to keep a secret, and too few to be merry. [ Proverb ]

A merry old fool and a gay apish matron are domestic monsters. [ Proverb ]

Who marries for love without money, hath merry nights and sorry days. [ Proverb ]

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.Light gains make heavy purses.
'Tis good to be merry and wise. [ George Chapman ]

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. [ William Shakespeare ]

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. [ Bible ]

In observing the world's movements, the most melancholy man would become merry, and Heraclitus would die of laughter. [ Chamfort ]

Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley. [ Lamb ]

'Tis the merry nightingale that crowds and hurries and precipitates, with fast thick warble, his delicious notes, as he were fearful that an April night would be too short for him to utter forth his love-chant, and disburden his full soul of all its music. [ Coleridge ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

merry in Scrabble®

The word merry is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters merry:

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The 103 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In merry

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merry in Words With Friends™

The word merry is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters merry:

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word merry

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The 115 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In merry

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Words within the letters of merry

2 letter words in merry (5 words)

3 letter words in merry (2 words)

5 letter words in merry (1 word)

merry + 1 blank (1 word)

merry + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence merry

Words with merry in them (1 word)

Words that end with merry (1 word)

Word Growth involving merry

Shorter words in merry

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Longer words containing merry

merrygoround merrygorounds

merrymaker merrymakers

merrymaking

merryman

merrymen