Word Meanings - FESTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. -- Fes"tive*ly, adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FESTIVE)

• Convivial
• Hospitable
• social
• festive
• gay
• festal
• jovial
• jolly
• Frolicsome
• Playful
• gamesome
• sportive
• wanton
• Gay
• Merry
• blithe
• lively
• sprightly
• smart
• gladsome
• pleasuresome
• cheerful
• Genial
• Warm
• cordial
• balmy
• cheering
• merry
• joyous
• nearly
• revivifying
• restorative
• Jubilant
• Joyous
• triumphant
• congratulatory
• exultant

Related words: (words related to FESTIVE)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• CONVIVIALIST
  A person of convivial habits.
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• FESTIVE
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. -- Fes"tive*ly, adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• BALMY
  1. Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young. 2. Producing balm. "The balmy tree." Pope. Syn. -- Fragrant;
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• JOVIALIST
  One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CORDIALNESS
  Cordiality. Cotgrave.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• PRIMOGENIAL
  First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to