Thesaurus
festive
Synonyms and Antonyms of festive
- we arrived at the Christmas party to find everyone already in a festive mood, perhaps owing in part to the punch
amused, beaming, chuckling, giggling, smiling
bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, lighthearted, lightsome, upbeat
animated, bouncing, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious, zippy
blessed (also blest), blissful, delighted, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, gladsome, happy, high, joyful, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed, radiant, rapturous, ravished, thrilled, tickled
amusing, facetious, flippant, frolicsome, funny, hilarious, jesting, joking, joshing, playful, sportive, witty
cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, unconcerned
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
antic, comic, comical, farcical, humorous, riotous, sidesplitting, uproarious
abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, glum, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, low-spirited, melancholy, sad, saddened, sorrowful, unhappy
crying, groaning, moaning, sobbing, wailing, weeping
discontented, disgruntled, moody
doleful, dolorous, joyless, lachrymose, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorry, woeful
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
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