merrymaking

mer·ry·mak·ing

noun \-kiŋ\

Definition of MERRYMAKING

1

: gay or festive activity : conviviality

2

: a convivial occasion : festivity

Examples of MERRYMAKING

1. <Christmas Eve is always an occasion of much merrymaking at our home.>

First Known Use of MERRYMAKING

1618

Related to MERRYMAKING

Synonyms

conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, rejoicing, reveling (or revelling), revelry, whoopee

Related Words

carousal, carouse; delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation, riot; cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness; carnival, celebration, festival, party, revel; frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping; enjoyment, happiness, joy; binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree; buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness

Near Antonyms

blackness, darkness, dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness; dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness

Rhymes with MERRYMAKING

moneymaking, moviemaking, papermaking, troublemaking, undertaking