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| Main Entry: | merriment/merrymaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, buffoonery, fun and games, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carnival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outdoor celebration |
| Synonyms: | Mardi Gras, amusement park, bacchanal, carousal, circus, conviviality, exposition, fair, festival, fete, fiesta, frolic, gala, heyday, jamboree, masquerade, merrymaking, orgy, revelry, rout, saturnalia, spree, carny, feasting, grind show, jollification, jubilee, ragbag, side show, street fair |
| 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, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jubilation, keeping, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, spree, triumph, honoring, jollification, joviality, jubilee, magnification, memorialization, solemnization, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, gaiety, game, high time*, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, blow out*, clambake, divertissement, fun and games, good time, grins, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, regalement, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banquet and celebration |
| Synonyms: | barbecue, blow*, blowout*, carnival, carousal, dinner, entertainment, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, gala, merrymaking, picnic, refreshment, regale, repast, spread, treat, wassail, big feed, clambake, fest, jollification, potlatch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | festival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, carnival, commemoration, competition, entertainment, fair, feast, fete, fiesta, gala, holiday, merrymaking, treat, festivities, field day, jubilee |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bash*, blowout*, carousal*, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, shindig*, sport, clambake, fun and games, joviality, joyfulness, reveling, revelment, whoopee, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, play |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, ball*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, high jinks, holiday, horseplay*, jesting, joke, joking, jollity, joy, laughter, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic*, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, buffoonery, clowning, foolery, good time, grins, jocularity, junketing, living it up, playfulness, romping, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | sadness, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, jollity, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, pleasure, rejoicing, revelry, sport, convulsions, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, joyousness, kicks, laughs, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | blues, depression, distress, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | orgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment |
| Synonyms: | bacchanal, bender*, binge*, blowout*, bout*, carousal, circus*, debauch, dissipation, excess, feast, fling*, indulgence, jag*, merrymaking, overindulgence, party, rampage*, revel, revelry, saturnalia, splurge, spree, surfeit, tear*, bacchanalia |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wassail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration |
| Synonyms: | bash*, blast*, blowout*, carousal, ceremony, festival, festivity, frolic, gala, hoopla, hullabaloo*, merriment, merrymaking, party, revelry, shindig*, spree, joviality, jubilee, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conviviality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | festivity |
| Synonyms: | entertainment, gaiety, merriment, merrymaking, sociability |
| Main Entry: | merriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, enjoyment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, tomfoolery, buffoonery, grins, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | gloom, misery |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, hilarity, joy, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, optimism, solace, cheeriness, good cheer, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joyousness, merry-making |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | game |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment |
| Synonyms: | adventure, amusement, athletics, business, distraction, diversion, enterprise, festivity, frolic, fun, jest, joke, lark, line, merriment, merrymaking, occupation, pastime, plan, play, proceeding, pursuit, recreation, romp, scheme, sport, undertaking, sports |
| Main Entry: | riot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very funny happening |
| Synonyms: | carousal, confusion, excess, extravaganza, festivity, flourish, frolic, high jinks, howl*, lark, merrymaking, panic*, revelry, romp, scream*, sensation, show, smash*, splash*, tumult, uproar, wow*, boisterousness, jollification, sidesplitter, skylark |
| Antonyms: | seriousness, solemnity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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