gaiety

Noun

Meaning

Same as Gayety.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

merriment playfulness bliss felicity beatitude glee rapture pleasantness jollity galvanization joviality entertainment pleasure animation fun

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Antonyms

blues depression heartache aggravation upset distress

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Hypernyms

happiness levity

Hyponyms

glee jollity joviality mirth hilarity jocularity

Examples

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Robert Louis Stevenson

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Anatole France

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. Denis Diderot

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne

Of Garrick's death That stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Samuel Johnson

Health and gaiety foster beauty. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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