merrymaking

Synonyms

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

Near Antonyms

dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness;

dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness;

Related Words

carousal, carouse;

delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation;

cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness;

carnival, celebration, festival, party, revel;

frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping;

binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree;

buffoonery, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness;