单词 | hilarity |
释义 | hilarityn. 1. Cheerfulness, gladsomeness; calm joy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] blithenessc1000 blithec1400 cheerfulness1435 chertec1449 jocundness1482 hilarity1568 cheerliness1571 good humour1571 exhilaration1626 cheerishness1645 geniality1652 jocundry1655 cheeriness1658 brightness1660 shine1710 flow of spirits1716 sunshine1717 genialness1727 festiveness1777 sunniness1829 riancy1834 gleesomeness1847 Euphrasia1882 hilariousness1885 blithesomeness1886 gayness1896 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vii. sig. B5 Temperat hilaritie & blythnes ar maist commendable. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 594 That joy..which extends the heart to such an hilarity in the eyes, and in the countenance..that it cannot be concealed. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 65 Johnson: No, Sir; wine gives not light, gay, ideal hilarity; but tumultuous, noisy, clamorous merriment. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 148 The pleasure which they partake conduces..to health and present hilarity. 2. Boisterous joy; merriment. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] dreamOE man-dreamOE gleea1200 galec1200 bauderyc1386 oliprancec1390 cheera1393 gaynessc1400 disportc1405 joyousitiea1450 festivitya1500 lakea1500 gaiety1573 merriment1574 jucundity1575 galliardise?1577 jouissance1579 merrymake1579 jolliment1590 mirth1591 jollyhead1596 spleen1598 jocantry16.. geniality1609 jovialty1621 jocundry1637 gaietry1650 sport1671 fun1726 galliardism1745 gig1777 merrymaking1779 hilarity1834 rollick1852 1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 90/2 Festal music..is the most remote of any from vulgar hilarity. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Let. 30 July in Paris Sketch Bk. I. 71 The coarse and vulgar hilarity. 1894 Amer. Missionary Nov. 378 The incomparable hilarity of the dusky cotton-pickers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1568 |
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