| Main Entry: | hoopla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, brouhaha, bustle, buzz*, commotion, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, fever, fireworks*, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hysteria, passion, racket, rage, ruckus, rumpus, stir, thrill |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
Synonyms: |
activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
Antonyms: |
cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | advertising |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public notice of sale; notices to increase consumer desire |
Synonyms: |
PR, announcement, announcing, ballyhoo, billing, blasting, broadcasting, buildup, displaying, exhibiting, exhibition, exposition, hard sell, hoopla*, hype*, pitch, plug, posting, proclamation, promo, promoting, promotion, publicity, puff, screamer, spread, squib |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
Synonyms: |
action, ball*, beguilement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, field day, fun, fun and games, gladdening, gratification, grins, high time, hilarity, hoopla*, laughs, laughter, merriment, merry go round, mirth, picnic, play, pleasing, pleasure, regalement, whoopee |
Antonyms: |
boredom |
| Main Entry: | celebration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
Synonyms: |
anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, honoring, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jollification, joviality, jubilation, jubilee, keeping, magnification, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, solemnization, spree, triumph, wingding |
| Main Entry: | comedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny entertainment |
Synonyms: |
ball*, burlesque, camp, chaffing, comic drama, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, farce, field day, fun, fun and games, funnies, funniness, gag show, grins, high camp, high time, hilarity, hoopla, humor, humorousness, interlude, jesting, joking, laughs, light entertainment, merry-go-round, picnic, play on, satire, schtick, send-up, sitcom, slapstick, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville, wisecracking, witticism, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
tragedy |
| 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: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
Synonyms: |
amusement, bash*, blowout, carousal*, clambake, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, fun and games, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, reveling, revelment, shindig*, sport, whoopee, wingding |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
| Main Entry: | jamboree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | noisy celebration |
Synonyms: |
bash*, blowout, ceremony, convention, festival, gathering, hoopla, jubilee, party, rally, revelry, shindig, wingding |
| Main Entry: | lather |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commotion, fuss |
Synonyms: |
agitation, bustle, clamor, confusion, dither, fever, flap, fluster, hassle, hoopla*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, state, stew, storm*, sweat*, tizzy, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, twitter* |
Antonyms: |
calm, peace |