Synonyms of merrymaking

merrymaking

noun

ˈmer-ē-ˌmā-kiŋ 

as in festivity

joyful or festive activity

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of merrymaking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From Stonehenge on, the day is more-so-than-not marked by revelry—including no shortage of libations, nudity, dancing in the woods, costumes, parades, bonfires, and general merrymaking. —Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023

But that seemed unlikely, especially given the tabloid-ready nature of the latest reports, which juxtaposed descriptions of raucous merrymaking in Downing Street with austere images of the bereaved queen, isolated in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. —Mark Landler, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022

Here are highlights of the Hollywood crowd’s globe-trotting merrymaking. —Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2022

It’s not exactly a secret that all the merrymaking of the holidays can lead to a little overindulging. —Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2022