Word Meanings - FESTIVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FESTIVITY)
- Banquet
- Feast
- festivity
- treat
- entertainment
- festival
- carousal
- carouse
- regalement
- cheer
- Carnival
- Revel
- rout
- masquerade
- Carouse
- Festivity
- feast
- banquet
- revel
- debauch
- Frolic
- Play
- game
- sport
- gambol
- gayety
- lark
- spree
- merrymaking
- prank
- Jollification
- Revelry
- conviviality
- fun
- carnival
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FESTIVITY)
Related words: (words related to FESTIVITY)
- TREATMENT
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope. - GAYETY
1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth; - DROOPER
One who, or that which, droops. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - REVELLENT
Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. - DEBAUCHMENT
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. - FROLICKY
Frolicsome. Richardson. - REVEL
See REVEAL - CHEERINESS
The state of being cheery. - BANQUETTE
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. - MASQUERADER
One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised. - FEAST
festival, F. fĂȘte, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year - DEBAUCHNESS
Debauchedness. - DROOPINGLY
In a drooping manner. - DEBAUCH
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. - REVELATION
1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto - CHEERISNESS
Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. - CHEERINGLY
In a manner to cheer or encourage. - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - CHEERER
One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson. - UPCHEER
To cheer up. Spenser. - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - UNWEARY
To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - ENTREATY
1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;