Entry Word: merrymaking

Function: noun

Meaning: joyful or festive activity <Christmas Eve is always an occasion of much merrymaking at our home>

Synonyms conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, reveling, revelry

Related Words carousal, carouse; delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, pleasure, recreation, riot; glee, gleefulness, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness; carnival, celebration, party, revel; frolicking, gamboling, rollicking, romping; enjoyment, happiness, joy; binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree; buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness; zaniness

Near Antonyms blackness, darkness, gloominess, glumness, grief, grieving, heartbreak, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, wretchedness; anguish, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness