Exhibiting gladness: jocund, merry, sprightly, gay, mirthful. In ballads frequently coupled with gay. Rare in modern English prose or speech.

In impersonal construction with indirect object denoting the person characterized by happiness or joy. Cf. sense 4a. Obsolete.

Gay, joyful.

Of persons and their attributes: Joyful, merry, jocund; cheerful, lively. Obsolete.

Light-hearted; fond of fun, games, and amusement; giving or expressing pleasure or amusement; frolicsome, sportive.

In high spirits; exhilarated, joyful; †glad of or pleased at something. Chiefly predicative.

Full of animated enjoyment (in early use chiefly with reference to feasting or sporting); full of laughter or cheerfulness; joyous. Also of a…

Feeling, expressing, or communicating mirth or cheerfulness; mirthful, merry, cheerful, blithe, gay, sprightly, light-hearted; pleasant, cheering…

Lively, brisk, gay, full of high spirits. archaic.

in (also †on) a (merry,etc.) pin: in a (good, etc.) mood or state of mind; of a disposition indicated by the modifying word. Also †to have the heart h…

Of a person, or a person's demeanour, disposition, etc.: full of mirth; joyful, merry.

Joyous, gay.

Of persons, their attributes, actions, etc.: light-hearted, carefree; manifesting, characterized by, or disposed to joy and mirth; exuberantly…

Jovial, merry.

Mirthful, merry, jocund.

Lively, brisk, in high spirits; lusty, sprightly, merry; aggressively high-spirited, disposed to exult or triumph, ‘cocky’. Now dialect and in U.S.

Gay, lively.

In similative proverbs, esp. as merry as a cricket, as lively as a cricket.

Humorous, jocular, facetious; merry, light-hearted. †to make pleasant: to be festive, make merry (obsolete). Now archaic and rare.

In early use: Joyous, merry, mirthful. In later use with sense derived from the verb: Frolicsome, sportive, full of merry pranks.

Jolly.

Full of glee; possessed by or manifesting a feeling of glee.

Blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay. archaic.

= gleeful, adj.

Glad, joyful, merry.

elliptical. Inclined to merriment; in a jocund mood. Obsolete.

A by-form of jocund, adj.

Full of or characterized by joy, animation, or good spirits; cheerful, merry, lively. Now rare and regional (chiefly Scottish).

Characterized by hearty mirth, humour, or good fellowship; merry, jolly; convivial.

attributive or as adj. = jovial, adj.

Inclined to laughter; mirthful. Also figurative. rare.

Jocund, mirthful, jocular.

Inspiring with gaiety; cheery; pleasant.

Merry, hilarious, lively. (Cf. chirpy, adj.)

most jovial.

Like air in its lightness and buoyancy. Lively, sprightly; cheerful, vivacious. Now chiefly Irish English.

Of or relating to a feast or festival; joyous, celebratory; merry, convivial; = festive, adj.

= hilarious, adj.

Disposed to mirth. (Cf. spleen, n. 1c.)

In good health or spirits; well.

= cranky, adj.2

Emotionally uplifted, in a good mood; elated, lively, uproarious; chiefly in high spirits, high (old) time.

Merry, cheerful, delighted, gay.

Merry, hearty; boisterous.

Characteristic of a feast; (hence also) joyous or celebratory in tone; (of a person or group) in a festive or holiday mood.

a merry (or †mad) grig (rarely without adjective): an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest. Also in phrase as merry (or li…

Fond of or characterized by fun and good company; jovial, merry, convivial. Cf. heartsome, adj. 3.

That moves in a bouncing or cantering manner; boisterous, lively; unsteady, rickety.

Joyous or celebratory in nature; infused with merriment and gaiety.

(of a person) that enjoys having fun; light-hearted and lively.

Characterized by mirth; mirthful, joyous. Also figurative.

Characteristic of or resembling Falstaff, a fat, humorous, jovial knight in Shakespeare Henry IV, Henry V, and Merry Wives of Windsor. Also…

Brisk, merry, lively, disposed to exult; = crank, adj.1

Full of laughter; comical, funny.

In similative proverbs, esp. as merry as a cricket, as lively as a cricket.

attributive or adj. in various slang or colloquial uses = shouting hurrah, uproarious, blindly enthusiastic; joyous, ‘glad’.

Boisterously joyous or merry; rollicking.

Inspired with the frenzy of a votary of Bacchus, frenzied; riotously drunken, roystering, jovial.

Merry.

attributive or as adj. = (as if) shouting ‘banzai’, uproarious, jollificatory. slang.

attributive hearty, jovial.