Word Meanings - MERRYMAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MERRYMAKING)

• Frolic
• Play
• game
• sport
• festivity
• entertainment
• gambol
• gayety
• lark
• spree
• merrymaking
• prank
• Jollification
• Revelry
• conviviality
• fun
• carnival

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MERRYMAKING)

• Tire
• weary
• droop
• flog

Related words: (words related to MERRYMAKING)

• 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.
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• CARNIVAL
  prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• SPREE
  A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
• SPORTER
  One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
• SPORTLING
  A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
• GAMBOL
  A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden. (more info) It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber:
• FROLICFUL
  Frolicsome.
• JOLLIFICATION
  A merrymaking; noisy festivity. We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• 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.
• 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.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• LIFE-WEARY
  Weary of living. Shak.
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• OVERWEARY
  To weary too much; to tire out. Dryden.