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Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.

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  1. a. Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
  2. adj. showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness
  3. Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.
  4. Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful tothe view, as a landscape.In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources,with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant.Burke.
  5. s showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness