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| Main Entry: |
merriment/merrymaking
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, buffoonery, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, laughs, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sports, games, special interests |
| Synonyms: | R and R, amusement, avocation, ball*, disport, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, exercise, festivity, field day, frolic, fun, fun and games, game, hilarity, hobby, holiday, jollity, laughs, leisure activity, mirth, pastime, picnic, play, playtime, pleasure, rec, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, rollick, sport, vacation |
| Antonyms: | labor, profession, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, merrymaking |
| Synonyms: | bacchanal, carousal, carouse, debauch, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gala, high jinks, jollification, jollity, merriment, party, reveling, revelment, saturnalia, skylarking, spree, wassail, whoopee |
| Main Entry: | revelry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merrymaking |
| Synonyms: | carousal, carouse, celebration, debauch, debauchery, entertainment, festival, festivity, fun, gaiety, high jinks, jollification, jollity, party, reveling, revelment, saturnalia, spree, whoop-de-do, whoopla |
| Antonyms: | mourning, sadness, sobriety |
| Main Entry: | sport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, joking |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, derision, drollery, escapade, frolic, horseplay, jest, jesting, joke, jollification, jollity, kidding, laughter, merriment, mirth, mockery, mummery, nonsense, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, scorn, teasing, tomfoolery, trifling |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
| Main Entry: | merriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, buffoonery, cheerfulness, conviviality, enjoyment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, grins, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, indulgence, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, laughs, laughter, levity, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, tomfoolery, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | gloom, misery |
| Main Entry: | blitheness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gaiety |
| Synonyms: | blithesomeness, carefreeness, cheerfulness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, lightheartedness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, sprightliness |
| Main Entry: | blithesomeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gaiety |
| Synonyms: | blitheness, carefreeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness |
| Main Entry: | festiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gaiety |
| Synonyms: | blowout, celebration, conviviality, festival, festivity, fun, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, revelry |
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