Word Meanings - REVELOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to REVELOUS)

• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• 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
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• REVELATOR
  One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• REVELATE
  To reveal. Frith. Barnes.
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• REVELMENT
  The act of reveling.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• REVELOUS
  Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• FESTIVITY
  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.
• REVELER
  One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak.
• REVEL-ROUT
  1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. Rowe. 2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• INFESTIVITY
  Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.