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单词 frolicsome
释义

frolicsome

adjective

frol·​ic·​some ˈfrä-lik-səm How to pronounce frolicsome (audio)
: full of gaiety : playful, sportive

Synonyms

  • antic
  • coltish
  • elfish
  • fay
  • frisky
  • larky
  • playful
  • rollicking
  • sportful
  • sportive
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Example Sentences

a frolicsome uncle who was a favorite among his relatives teachers smiling at the frolicsome students leaving school for summer vacation
Recent Examples on the Web Freezing winter in a place designed for frolicsome summer can be a doleful time. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022 The hues of the production create a theatrical world unto itself, allowing the frolicsome choreography of Kelly Devine to move with unflashy freedom. Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021 This, Heynen's latest book, focuses as its title suggests on the youngest of his archetypal figures of rural boyhood, a shapeshifting and mercurial personage who is by turns frolicsome and introspective, mischievous and vulnerable. Jim Heynen, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021 The outside is festooned with frolicsome animal stickers (many subjects from other studies are children), but these do nothing to allay the discomfort of lying perfectly still with my head in a vise for an hour and a half. Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020 Singing in the remains of Roman baths, the trio exhibit a fraternal, frolicsome energy — opera with the looseness of rock. Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 June 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1699, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

frolicsome

adjective

frol·​ic·​some ˈfrä-lik-səm How to pronounce frolicsome (audio)
: very lively and playful
frolicsome ponies

frolicsome

adjective

1
as in playful
given to good-natured joking or teasing a frolicsome uncle who was a favorite among his relatives

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • playful
  • merry
  • mischievous
  • lively
  • rollicking
  • frisky
  • larky
  • amusing
  • sportive
  • elfish
  • entertaining
  • goofy
  • energetic
  • coltish
  • sportful
  • antic
  • delightful
  • frolic
  • fay
  • spirited
  • impish
  • whimsical
  • fun
  • happy
  • jocund
  • vivacious
  • roguish
  • silly
  • lighthearted
  • enjoyable
  • spunky
  • kittenish
  • sprightly
  • pleasing
  • coy
  • rascally
  • knavish
  • prankish
  • gay
  • jocose
  • pleasant
  • pixie
  • jocular
  • joking
  • teasing
  • frivolous
  • jesting
  • pleasurable
  • devilish
  • trifling
  • pixy
  • diverting
  • dabbling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • earnest
  • sober
  • dutiful
  • serious
  • responsible
  • solemn
  • sombre
  • serious-minded
  • stern
  • stolid
  • somber
  • grim
  • decorous
  • grave
  • priggish
  • staid
  • sedate
  • starchy
  • proper
  • formal
  • stuffy
  • sobersided
  • restrained
  • guarded
  • inhibited
  • no-nonsense
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as in frolic
joyously unrestrained teachers smiling at the frolicsome students leaving school for summer vacation

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • frolic
  • joyful
  • exuberant
  • lively
  • vivacious
  • effervescent
  • gamesome
  • buoyant
  • bouncy
  • bubbly
  • high-spirited
  • gay
  • giddy
  • boisterous
  • lyric
  • outgoing
  • carefree
  • ecstatic
  • lighthearted
  • rollicking
  • sprightly
  • uninhibited
  • raucous
  • rowdy
  • crank
  • bold
  • extroverted
  • insouciant
  • silly
  • impudent
  • saucy
  • extraverted
  • happy-go-lucky
  • insolent
  • rapturous
  • brazen
  • euphoric
  • impertinent
  • audacious
  • overexuberant
  • brash
  • light-headed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sullen
  • restrained
  • subdued
  • low-spirited
  • repressed
  • phlegmatic
  • stolid
  • inhibited
  • morose
  • stoical
  • constrained
  • surly
  • impassive
  • dour
  • stoic
  • depressed
  • glum
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