Frivolity is a type of clownishness or silliness. Frivolity is the opposite of getting down to business in a serious way. If people are running around a classroom, throwing things, and laughing, the teacher might say, Why all the frivolity?. This is a word for clowning or horsing around â not being serious.
The definition of whilom is something former, or that once was. 1  An example of something whilom is a friend that you were close to in middle school. 2  An example of something whilom is a job that you once had.
1 {Hindoo}.] 1. 2  Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 3  2. 4  Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk. 5  3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.