frolicsome
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of frolicsome
Explanation
Frolicsome is having a merry time of it. Picture frolicsome girls and boys playing tag, running through the meadow, laughing and rolling in the grass. Feeling gleeful and energetic as you ice skate with your friends? So spin like an Olympic skater who's going for the gold, suddenly start a race, or act like a clown, pretending to fall on the ice. You are feeling frolicsome — happy and lighthearted, laughing along with the people you are amusing. When you are frolicsome, you frolic, or act playfully to have fun.
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Example Sentences
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Still, it is the frolicsome rapport between the two stars that gives this comic trifle of a play its allure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The staging is frolicsome but visually monotonous — a problem for a play that is much longer than it needs to be.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Gleiberman concluded the film is "lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025
Some get frolicsome only here and there or even here or there.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021
On the contrary, he had all the captivating ways of a frolicsome kitten.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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