| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
Synonyms: |
coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment, recreation |
Synonyms: |
amusement, ball, beguilement, delectation, delight, disport, dissipation, distraction, divertissement, enjoyment, field day, frivolity, fun, fun and games, game, gratification, grins, high time, hoopla*, laughs, levity, merry-go-round, pastime, picnic, play, pleasure, relaxation, relish, sport, whoopee |
Antonyms: |
chore, task, vocation, work |
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
Synonyms: |
affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, fool notion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, in, in thing, innovation, kick, kink, latest word, mania, mode, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle |
Antonyms: |
standard, tradition |
| Main Entry: | flightiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresponsibility |
Synonyms: |
airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
Antonyms: |
responsibility |
| Main Entry: | flippancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, disrespectfulness, flightiness, freshness, frivolity, impertinence, impishness, impudence, levity, lightness, mischievousness, pertness, playfulness, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, volatility, waggishness |
Antonyms: |
courtesy, respect, reverence, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
Antonyms: |
gravity, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | mirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
Synonyms: |
amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, convulsions, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joyousness, kicks, laughs, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, pleasure, rejoicing, revelry, sport, whoopee |
Antonyms: |
blues, depression, distress, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme folly |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, asininity, frivolity, giddiness, idiocy, imbecility, ineptitude, irrationality, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, nonsense, nonsensicality, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, witlessness |
Antonyms: |
acumen, canniness, shrewdness |
| Main Entry: | persiflage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teasing |
Synonyms: |
banter, chaffing, frivolity, mockery |
| Main Entry: | fiddle-faddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bull, bunk, flummery, frippery, frivolity, froth, hogwash, malarkey, minutia, trifle, trifles, triviality |