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Riant

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

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Happy 84% connected

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture…

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Happy 84% connected

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture…

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Laughing 92% connected

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oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Comical adjective · 78% connection

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.

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Delectable adjective · 78% connection

Highly pleasing; delightful.

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Delicious adjective · 78% connection

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.

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Delightable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of delighting; delightful.

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Delightous adjective · 78% connection

Delightful.

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Delightsome adjective · 78% connection

Very pleasing; delightful.

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Delitable adjective · 78% connection

Delightful; delectable.

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Derision noun · 78% connection

An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.

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Dreamland noun · 78% connection

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.

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Ecstatic noun · 78% connection

Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

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Eden noun · 78% connection

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

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Electrify verb · 78% connection

To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrif…

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exciting adjective · 78% connection

Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

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Feature noun · 78% connection

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiar…

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Funny superl. · 78% connection

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

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Gas noun · 78% connection

Laughing gas.

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Gelastic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

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Intoxicant noun · 78% connection

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

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