Synonyms of gaiety

gaiety

noun

ˈgā-ə-tē 

variants also gayety

1

as in attire

dressy clothing

attendees of the masquerade ball arrived dressed in all their gaiety

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attire
• finery
• costume
• frippery
• apparel
• bravery
• regalia
• feather
• full dress
• caparison
• glad rags
• best
• array
• best bib and tucker
• toggery
• raiment
• wear
• threads
• rags
• vesture
• rigging
• duds
• togs
• rig
• vestiary
• habiliment(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tatters
• disarray
• dishabille

2

as in festivity

joyful or festive activity

loved the gaiety of the annual harvest festival

the gaiety of the wedding reception

Synonyms & Similar Words

• festivity
• celebration
• jollity
• merriment
• merrymaking
• revelry
• festival
• carnival
• diversion
• jollification
• revelling
• rejoicing
• conviviality
• cheerfulness
• reveling
• joy
• recreation
• enjoyment
• mirth
• entertainment
• fun
• delight
• joviality
• whoopee
• glee
• pleasure
• riot
• hilarity
• revel
• cheeriness
• carousal
• carouse
• mischief
• happiness
• merriness
• frivolity
• cheer
• playfulness
• mirthfulness
• joking
• levity
• party
• rollicking
• lightheartedness
• jocularity
• flippancy
• gleefulness
• buffoonery
• funning
• lark
• jesting
• romping
• frolic
• romp
• gambolling
• gambol
• frolicking
• gamboling
• spree
• zaniness
• fling
• rollick
• binge
• clownishness
• clownery
• joshing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misery
• grief
• gloom
• mourning
• darkness
• blackness
• woe
• wretchedness
• gloominess
• heartache
• heartbreak
• sorrow
• melancholy
• mournfulness
• dolor
• glumness
• unhappiness
• dejection
• depression
• heartsickness
• miserableness
• despondency
• dumps
• dolefulness
• doldrums
• forlornness
• joylessness
• despondence
• downheartedness
• disconsolateness
• dispiritedness

3

as in cheerfulness

a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter

the gaiety of children enjoying an outing at an amusement park

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheerfulness
• glee
• festivity
• mirth
• merriness
• cheer
• joviality
• merriment
• mirthfulness
• joyfulness
• hilarity
• cheeriness
• brightness
• joking
• gleefulness
• revelling
• gayness
• humor
• playfulness
• funning
• animation
• frivolity
• reveling
• jocundity
• levity
• jollity
• giddiness
• revelry
• jollification
• vivacity
• buoyancy
• lightheartedness
• insouciance
• joyousness
• jocularity
• liveliness
• sunniness
• sportiveness
• flippancy
• jocosity
• jauntiness
• buffoonery
• jesting
• jubilance
• rejoicing
• perkiness
• clownishness
• jocoseness
• gamesomeness
• gambolling
• rollicking
• joshing
• good-naturedness
• frolicking
• gamboling
• good-humoredness
• romping
• jest

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sorrow
• sadness
• melancholy
• unhappiness
• dejection
• depression
• blues
• gloom
• earnestness
• solemnity
• seriousness
• gravity
• forlornness
• spleen
• bile
• despondence
• grimness
• sourness
• discontent
• soberness
• mournfulness
• woe
• moodiness
• darkness
• plaintiveness
• joylessness
• solemnness
• blackness
• disgruntlement
• gloominess
• graveness
• glumness
• misery
• mourning
• desolation
• wretchedness
• desolateness
• sobersidedness
• heartbreak
• woefulness
• dolefulness
• dolorousness
• miserableness

Examples of gaiety in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Where the drops are sparse in detail, the frame delivers in an undeniable elegance and gaiety. —Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023

My peace of mind and my gaiety will be gone for ever. —Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023

But even that is done with gaiety. —John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 13 Feb. 2023

There was another moment of almost gaiety. —Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022