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Synonyms and Antonyms of gaiety
1
dressy clothing
best bib and tucker
2
joyful or festive activity
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
binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree
buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness
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
3
a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter
jollification, jollity, reveling (or revelling), revelry
brightness, buoyancy, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, humor, sunniness
gamesomeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, playfulness, sportiveness
buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, funning, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joking, joshing
animation, giddiness, jauntiness, liveliness, perkiness, vivacity
joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, rejoicing
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
bile, gloom, melancholy, sourness, spleen
earnestness, graveness, gravity, grimness, seriousness, soberness, sobersidedness, solemnity, solemnness
discontent, disgruntlement, moodiness
dolefulness, dolorousness, joylessness, mournfulness, plaintiveness, woe, woefulness
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