frolic

Speech parts

1. frolic - Noun

2. frolic - Adjective

3. frolic - Verb

Meaning

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skylark lark play caper sport romp cavort frisk disport gambol run around rollick lark about dido merry
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Antonyms

work blue blues depression heartache aggravation
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Hypernyms

play recreation diversion

Hyponyms

game folly indulgence teasing flirting flirtation

Phrases with the word

frolic of his own frolic pad turtle frolic

Derivatives

frolicked frolicking

Examples

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. William Wordsworth

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher

The dog is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher

Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind. James Boswell

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Stephen Fry

Close letter words and terms

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