- Today's Word
Frolicacious
[froh-li-key-shuhs]
Definition
- (adjective) A whimsical fusion of “frolic” and “delicious,” this term describes an experience, activity, or state of being that is delightfully playful, indulgent, and overflowing with uninhibited revelry, evoking a sense of carefree joy and delicious abandon.
Example
The annual water park celebration was a true frolicacious affair, with visitors of all ages frolicking in the pools, splashing down the slides, and indulging in the delicious revelry of childlike play, their laughter and squeals of delight filling the air with an infectious spirit of frolicacious merriment.
Fun Fact
The concept of “frolicacious” celebrates the idea that certain experiences or environments can ignite a state of pure, uninhibited play and delicious indulgence within individuals, inviting them to embrace their inner child and revel in the frolicacious delights of carefree joy and playful abandon. It suggests an atmosphere so conducive to playful revelry that it evokes a sense of delicious indulgence, where the soul is free to frolic and indulge in the frolicacious pleasures of unrestrained merriment.
(adjective) Deserving praise or reward on the basis of genuine effort, skill, or achievement.
The meritorious work of the research team went unrecognized for years before a junior colleague finally submitted it for the award it had always deserved.
Meritorious derives from the Latin meritorius, meaning “that by which money is earned,” rooted in merere — “to earn” or “to deserve.” The same root gives us merit, meritocracy, and emeritus — all words built around the idea of something earned rather than given. It entered English in the 15th century, initially used in theological contexts to describe acts worthy of divine reward before expanding into its broader secular sense of anything genuinely deserving of recognition.