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.
*madras: cotton, plaid material (for clothing) *cowlick: an unruly tuft of hair. *unfathomable: difficult or impossible to. understand. Chapter 2: hastily: quickly, without much thought. roguishly: playfully mischievous; devilishly. *incredulous: skeptical; disbelieving.