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MIRTHFUL
Definition of MIRTHFUL
adjective
Filled with mirth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
MIRTHFUL carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Full of gladness and merriment.
adjective
Characterized by or expressing gladness and merriment.
“a warm, tender, and mirthful movie.”
Full of mirth or gaiety; characterized by or accompanied with merriment; jovial; festive.
Causing or provoking mirth or merriment.
Where it comes from
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth + -ful.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,231)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
MIRTHFUL in a sentence
“But he also incorporated a 150-square-foot sunshade printed with what he refers to as a mirthful interpretation of the apocalypse by Roy Lichtenstein.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MIRTHFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 123 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MIRTHFUL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read FHILMRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MIRTHFUL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start MIRTHF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found MIRTHFUL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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