FEASTING Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

feasting

verb

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present participle of feast

as in feeding

to entertain with a fancy meal the returning war heroes were feasted all over the country

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as in delighting

to give satisfaction to feast your eyes on all the fresh flowers at the farmers' market

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Recent Examples of feasting Within about a month, a lineage of Oceanospirillales microbes proliferated, feasting on cyclohexane. —

Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 Most travelers base themselves in either Giglio Porto or Campese, both on the water, and pass their days swimming, sunning, napping, and feasting on fresh seafood at outdoor restaurants. —

Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026 When an alien microbe begins feasting on starlight, a frantic, galactic scramble to save humanity ensues in Project Hail Mary (2021), a science-fiction novel by Andy Weir. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026 That afternoon, after feasting on Jumanyazov’s plov, gleaming with oil and piled high with carrots, Aytjanov took me to the home of Gawxar Abdikarimova, a researcher at the Regional History and Aral Sea Museum who was also born into a post-Sea world. —

Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026 The fruit his study subjects were feasting on is called African star apple. —

Ari Daniel, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026 The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids, supernovas, and feasting black holes. —

Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026 These insects are still evolving, and humans are increasingly encroaching on wild areas—more mosquitoes could continue to adapt to prefer feasting on us over other animals. —

Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026 But Cheung Chau isn't just about feasting your eyes (and stomach). —

Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026

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After that, they’re called thornbacks, a thornback being a bottom-feeding skatelike fish with sharp spikes running along its spine.

— David Sedaris, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Emmline Toussaint, main coordinator of Mary’s Meals’ BND school-feeding program in Haiti, said that gas stations in some regions are selling fuel 25% to 30% higher than even what the government stipulated because of gang violence and difficulties with trucks trying to access certain areas.

— Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026