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.
tr.v. loomed, loomÂ·ing, looms. To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom. [Middle English lome, from Old English gelÅma, tool: ge-, collective pref.; see yclept + -lÅma, tool (as in handlÅman, tools).] loom (luËm) n. 1. (Crafts) an apparatus, worked by hand (hand loom) or mechanically (power loom), for weaving yarn into a textile. 2.