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Word Meanings - CONVIVIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

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  • JOVIALITY
    The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
  • 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.
  • JOVIALTY
    Joviality. Barrow.
  • 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.
  • JOVIALIST
    One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
  • GENIALNESS
    The quality of being genial.
  • GENIALITY
    The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
  • JOVIALNESS
    Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.
  • MERRY
    mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • JOVIAL
    planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or 1. Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial
  • JOLLY
    jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot
  • MERRYMAKER
    One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
  • GENIAL
    See GENIAN
  • JOLLY-BOAT
    A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.
  • MERRYMEETING
    A meeting for mirth.
  • CONVIVIAL
    Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.
  • PRIMOGENIAL
    First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
  • CONGENIALLY
    In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
  • CONGENIALNESS
    Congeniality.
  • INCONGENIAL
    Not congenial; uncongenial. -- In`con*ge`ni*al"i*ty.
  • COGENIAL
    Congenial.

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