merry

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling pleasure and happiness
(as) pleased as Punchidiom
ASMR
be dancing in the streetsidiom
be floating on airidiom
be full of the joys of springidiom
cheery
chipper
chirpily
chirpy
chuffed
happily
happy camper
happy placeidiom
jaunty
jocund
sunnily
swooning
swooningly
swoony
take delight in something/doing something

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Celebrations, parties & special occasions

festive | American Dictionary

festive
adjective
us/ˈfes·tɪv/
typical of a holiday when people are in a good humor and expect to have a good time:
festive colored lights

Examples of festive

festive
As in earlier, non-dramatic performances like carnival or festive ritual, the audience came to the theatre expecting a dialogic relationship with the stage performers.
On saint-day celebrations (mawlids) and other festive occasions, public recitations make the poetry available to a larger audience.
Before proceeding with this discussion, let us turn once more to our festive song.
The international press described the celebration in positive terms, and the liberal press characterised the events as festive, patriotic and popular.
He shall know at a glance the festive theatre and the stern hall of hoodwinked justice, the modest hospital and the patrician palace.
Africanisation of music, dance and other spiritual, aesthetic and festive expressions followed.
Some respondents did express some regret that not having children would mean missing out on certain intrinsic pleasures such as their presence on festive occasions.
Like a poet laureate, this professor often had to write poems and speeches for festive occasions, such as the king's birthday or the university's birthday.
For workers, holidays on religious occasions were especially significant because they provided a rare opportunity for festive enjoyment.
The new festivals offer the same kind of regular festive setting for people to mingle, meet friends, be entertained and barter, buy, and sell goods.
As the residents stood around the festive tables, he explained who was absent and why, and requested donations for various charitable organisations.
They now travel to the towns and venues for a festive outing with friends, in search of cultural enrichment, tourism, or simply a party.
A short argument ensued between the women; some complied and some did not, and the festive mood was gone (plate 18).
Despite a throwaway ending that does not really come off, as a festive concert overture this is, in modern political parlance, thoroughly 'fit for purpose'.
In this manner, they were able to organise a series of festive encounters with potential supporters and build an alliance for the upcoming elections.
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