Festive
['festɪv] or ['fɛstɪv]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
Typist: Robinson
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Convivial, jovial, joyous, gay, merry, mirthful, festal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Convivial, jovial, gay, merry
ANT:Solitary, deserted, ascetic, gloomy
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Definition
adj. festal: mirthful.—n. Fes′tival a joyful celebration: a feast.—adv. Fes′tively.—n. Festiv′ity social mirth: joyfulness: gaiety.—adj. Fes′tivous festive.
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Examples
- A certain festive cheerfulness prevails. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We would have shone at a wake, but not at anything more festive. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was Adrian's wish to prevent all labour; to bestow a festive appearance on this funeral train. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a kind of festive occasion, and the parties were attired accordingly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The house during her stay assumes a festive, neat, warm, jovial, snug appearance not visible at other seasons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You don't look festive, ma'am, what's the matter? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mrs Boffin replied: '“The gay, the gay and festive scene, The halls, the halls of dazzling light. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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