merriment
How many syllables in merriment?
There are 3 syllables in the word merriment.How to pronounce merriment:
Synonyms for merriment:
amusement
brightness
cheer
cheerfulness
cheeriness
conviviality
festivity
frivolity
frolic
fun
funning
gaiety
gayety
gayness
glee
gleefulness
happiness
hilarity
humor
jocularity
jocundity
joking
jolliness
jollity
joviality
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Antonyms for merriment:
affliction
agony
anguish
annoyance
apathy
bleakness
blues
bore
boredom
broken heart
broken-heartedness
bummer
burden
calamity
chagrin
cheerlessness
chore
criticism
dejectedness
dejection
depression
desolation
despair
despondence
despondency
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Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- refocus
- equipment
- opaque
- nourishment
- lethargic
- follower
- anecdote
- Diogenes
- earth mother
- quantity
- ecstatic
- salable
- suddenly
- constricting
- Ximena
- unfocused
- obfuscate
- axolotl
- extinguish
- gingerly
- sufficient
- hostelry
- attorney
- subtleties
- hairdresser
- bizarre
- emphasize
- diagraph
- accorded
- casefy
- admitting
- poverty
- acosmist
- homesick
- daresay
- well-mannered
- aerobics
- unprovoked
- summarized
- inhabit
- honesty
- tyranny
- covetous
- badminton
- prentices
- parable
- abysmal
- idleness
- climbable
- overdone
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Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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