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merriments

NOUN

enjoyment, amusement

Synonyms

WEAK

brawl buffoonery cheerfulness conviviality festivity frolic fun fun and games gaiety glee happiness hilarity hoopla indulgence jocularity jocundity jollity joviality joy laughs laughter levity liveliness mirth picnic recreation revel revelry self-indulgence shindig sport whoopee wingding

Antonyms

WEAK

sadness sorrow unhappiness

NOUN

amusement

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hilarity revelry

STRONG

brawl buffoonery cheerfulness conviviality enjoyment festivity frolic fun gaiety glee grins happiness hoopla indulgence jocularity jocundity jollity joviality joy laughs laughter levity liveliness merrymaking mirth picnic recreation revel self-indulgence shindig sport tomfoolery whoopee

WEAK

wingding

Antonyms

STRONG

depression gloom misery sadness seriousness sorrow unhappiness woe work

Example Sentences

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If as much by wishful thinking as by design, it had both the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams on center stage in each of those merriments.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2019

Yet despite the merriments, Christmas can be a stressful time for presidents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2015

But court is always May, buds out in masques, Breaks into feather'd merriments, and flowers In silken pageants.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In the midst of the merriments of the mutations of Time, Pierre hath ringed himself in with the grief of Eternity.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Thus, Mr. Editor, is harvest home spent in that county, and I send you the only account I can furnish of the harvest merriments, hoping some of your correspondents will add to my little mite.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various