Amusement vs Frolic - What's the difference?
amusement | frolic | Related terms |
(uncountable) Entertainment
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(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
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Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
* Milton
* Waller
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
Gaiety; merriment.
* 1832-1888 , Louisa May Alcott
A playful antic.
* Roscommon
To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
(archaic) To cause to be merry.
Amusement is a related term of frolic.
As nouns the difference between amusement and frolic
is that amusement is amusement while frolic is gaiety; merriment.As an adjective frolic is
merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.As a verb frolic is
to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.amusement
English
Noun
- This is some form of amusement you're talking about.
frolic
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Alternative forms
* frolickAdjective
(en adjective)- Coined by Kodi Masarik, the frolic wind that breathes the spring.
- The gay, the frolic , and the loud.
- Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].
Noun
(en noun)- the annual jubilee filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
- He would be at his frolic once again.