high time

Main Entry:
high time []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: great fun
Synonyms: ball, big time, due season, good time, high old time, picnic
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: entertainment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amusement, pleasure
Synonyms: ball*, bash*, big time, blast*, blow out, celebration, cheer, clambake, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, game, good time, grins, high time, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, regalement, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, wingding
Antonyms: chore, drudgery, labor, task, work
Main Entry: spree
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wild activity
Synonyms: bacchanalia, ball, bash, binge, caper, carousal, carouse, carousing, celebration, field day, fling, frolic, high jinks, high time, jag, jamboree, junket, lark, merry-go-round, orgy, party, rampage, revel, rip*, spending expedition, splurge, tear*
Antonyms: care, thriftiness
Main Entry: eleventh hour
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the latest possible moment
Synonyms: high time, just in time, last minute, nick of time, the last moment, zero hour
Main Entry: last minute
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: latest possible moment
Synonyms: eleventh hour, high time, nick of time, under the wire
Related Words
Main Entry: entertainment
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
Zugzwang, aleiptic, amused, amusing, closed, corybantic, diverting, entertaining, espiègle, festal, festive, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughable, ludibrious, ludibund, lusory, mute, piscatory, playful, pleasant, psyllic, recreative, rompish, scacchic, sphairistic, sporting, toxophilite, venatic, warrantable, wicketed, witty
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Amusement.
Category: 1. Passive Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
amusement, entertainment; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps, sport; labor of love; pleasure., relaxation., fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk., giggle, titter, snigger, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation; Kentish fire; tiger., play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke (ridicule)., dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero; minuet, waltz, polka; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.]; nautch-girl; shindig [U.S.]; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel; galop, galopade; jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet (drama); ball; bal, balmasque, balcostume; masquerade; Terpsichore., festivity, merrymaking; party (social gathering); bat [U.S.], bum [U.S.], bust, clambake [U.S.], donation party [U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum [U.S.], tear , Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat; block party; company picnic., round of pleasures, dissipation, a short life and a merry one, racketing, holiday making., rejoicing; jubilee (celebration)., bonfire, fireworks, feu-de-joie, firecracker., holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras, mi-careme, feria, fiesta., place of amusement, theater; concert room, ballroom, assembly room; music hall., park, plaisance; arbor; garden (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe; amusement park; gameroom., game of chance, game of skill., athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo; tent pegging, tilting at the ring, quntain, greasy pole; quoits, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell., leapfrog, hop skip and jump; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch, jackstones, mumblety-peg, pingpong, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag, billiards, pool, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain, American bowls; tenpins [U.S.], bowling, tivoli., cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, ombeer, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; vingtun; quinze, thirgy-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap- snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat., ace, king, queen, knave, jack, joker; trump., bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck., flush, full-house, straight; misere, chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos, merelles, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose; loto, morra; gambling (chance)., toy, plaything, bauble; doll (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack (trifle); magic lantern (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]., sportsman, gamester, reveler; master of ceremonies, master of revels; arbiter elegantiarum; arbiter bibendi, archer, fan [U.S.], toxophilite, turfman.
-verbs
amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one., recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please; interest; treat, regale., amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool., make holiday, keep holiday; go a Maying., while away the time, beguile the time; kill time, dally., smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar., shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with laughter.
-adjectives
amusing, entertaining, diverting; recreative, lusory; pleasant (pleasing); laughable (ludicrous); witty; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious., amused; "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw" [Pope]; laughing ; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter.
-adverbs
"on the light fantastic toe" [Milton], at play, in sport.
-phrases
deus nobis haec otia fecit; dum vivimus vivvamus; dulce est desipere in loco [Horace]; "(every room) hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy" [Timon of Athens];
Antonyms: weariness
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