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good spirits, mirth, mirthfulness, joyfulness, felicity,
jubilation, festivity, exhilaration, buoyancy, exuberance,
cheer, cheerfulness, glee, fun, hilarity, enjoyment, happiness,
blithefulness, blithesomeness, frolicking: Everyone joined in
the merriment at the office party.
merry adj. 1 cheerful, happy, gay, cheery, jolly, jovial, in high or
good spirits, mirthful, joyful, joyous, hilarious, jubilant,
rejoicing, festive, exhilarating, exuberant, vivacious,
convivial, buoyant, gleeful, blithe, blithesome, carefree,
light-hearted, delighted: Didn't we have a merry old time at
the Christmas party! 2 make merry. revel, celebrate, carouse,
frolic: The guests made merry till the wee hours of the
morning.
mesh n. 1 mesh-work, network, netting, net, web, webbing, lattice,
lattice-work, screen, screening, interlacing, lace-work, grid,
grate, grating, grater, sieve, strainer, trellis, trellis-work,
decussation, Technical rete, reticle or reticule or graticule,
reticulation, plexus, plexure, reticulum; interstice: The mesh
of the hammock broke and I fell to the ground. 2 Often, meshes.
grip, clutches, grasp, toils, web, trap, entanglement, tangle,
complex, complexity, intricacy: Her papers were lost in the
meshes of the filing system.
--v. 3 catch, entangle, enmesh, grab, trap, entrap, snare,
ensnare, involve: I became meshed inextricably in the
complexities of her life. 4 engage, fit (together), dovetail,
knit, enmesh, match, interlock: After they were aligned, the
gears meshed perfectly.
mess n. 1 chaos, disorder, disarray, disorganization, shambles,
muddle, disarrangement, clutter, hotchpotch or US also
hodgepodge, litter, tangle, jumble, confusion, mishmash;
untidiness: Would you help me clean up this mess? Drugs have
made a mess of her life. 2 concoction, mixture, medley,
miscellany, hash, gallimaufry, farrago, olio, olla podrida,
pot-pourri, smorgasbord or sm”rg†sbord, kedgeree: They
presented us with a huge mess of things from which we must
select what we want. 3 predicament, difficulty, plight, pinch,
trouble, dilemma, quandary, imbroglio, Colloq foul-up, stew,
fix, hot water, (pretty or fine) kettle of fish, pickle, jam,
Slang screw-up, Brit balls-up, can of worms, US snafu: You have