REVELING Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

reveling 1 of 2

noun

variants or revelling

as in festivity

joyful or festive activity the reveling was too much for her, so she went to bed early even though the party was still going strong

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reveling

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verb

variants or revelling

present participle of revel

as in drinking

to take part in drunken revelry reveling all night is not conducive to a productive next day at work

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Recent Examples of reveling

Noun

Especially watching Curtis reveling playing a teen again. — Katie Grant, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025

Verb

Mary Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, reveling with her sisters in the upper loge section along the first-base line. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 31 July 2026 And on Wednesday, here in Atlanta, the Argentines turned a tourist attraction called Underground Atlanta into Underground Argentina, reveling with drums, chants, and dancing after beating England, 2-1, to earn a place in the championship game. — Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2026 The Dodgers’ come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series clinched a series victory over the Yankees and produced the prevailing image of Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and their teammates reveling on the Yankee Stadium diamond. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026 When the Black Queen’s message arrives in the Riverlands, the king consort, lil’ Oscar Tully, and their new pal Roddy the Ruin are busy reveling, making up ballads dedicated to their own derring-do. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026 Our friends converted their 400-person reception hall wedding into a spirited dance party at their home, with small groups of well-wishers, each small enough to fit into their bomb shelter, taking turns reveling. — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Sacramento State is planning its biggest homecoming celebration yet as the university begins its first football season in the Mid-American Conference, but this year's festivities come with a major change after a concert last season ended in chaos.

— Steve Large, CBS News, 31 July 2026
For the wedding festivities, Spencer wore a total of five custom Dolce & Gabbana dresses.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 30 July 2026

Definition of festivity

Verb

For chemicals classified as possible human carcinogens, MCLGs are typically set at a level where drinking the water daily for 70 years would cause one additional cancer case per 1 million people above the background rate.

— Christine Kirchhoff, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Traditionally, mate is passed around a group, with friends and family members often drinking from the same bombilla.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

Definition of drinking

Noun

Sacramento State is planning its biggest homecoming celebration yet as the university begins its first football season in the Mid-American Conference, but this year's festivities come with a major change after a concert last season ended in chaos.

— Steve Large, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Unfortunately, the big 20th-anniversary celebration likely stymied any conversations around cleaning house.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 31 July 2026

Definition of celebration

Verb

Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026

Definition of carousing

Noun

The top-level changes late Tuesday were intended to draw a line under an unwelcome spasm of political turmoil that lasted almost a week and prompted rejoicing in Russia.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
There’s an inevitable triumphalism in all this rejoicing, and that was certainly also true in 1876 during the nation’s centennial.

— Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026

Definition of rejoicing

Verb

This is someone’s Super Bowl, if the Super Bowl was about binging 15 pounds of cased beef tubes.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Michelle has also faced ongoing comments on her appearance ‒ a 2011 cartoon depicted her as overweight and bingeing on hamburgers and more recently, she has been accused of taking Ozempic to lose weight.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 June 2026

Definition of bingeing

Noun

And with training camp beginning Saturday, attention again has been diverted to the incident that remains unresolved — an allegation that Nacua left bite marks on a woman’s shoulder during an evening of revelry.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Throughout my 20s, a crew of us would take an annual European ski trip that was often more focused on après ski revelry than downhill pursuits.

— Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026

Definition of revelry

Noun

Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.

— William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Once ground was completely covered with shards of tableware, folks journeyed from their seats into the center of the room for more dancing and merrymaking.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 June 2026

Definition of merrymaking

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