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merrymaking

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Synonyms & Antonyms of merrymaking

joyful or festive activity

Christmas Eve is always an occasion of much merrymaking at our home

Synonyms for merrymaking

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

Words Related to merrymaking

carousal,
carouse

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

enjoyment,
happiness,
joy

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

buffoonery,
clownery,
clownishness,
flippancy,
frivolity,
funning,
jesting,
jocularity,
joking,
joshing,
levity,
lightheartedness,
playfulness,
zaniness

Near Antonyms for merrymaking

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

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