FESTIVAL Synonyms

• someone who engages in drinking bouts

• a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• used of riotously drunken merrymaking

• a festival marked by merrymaking and processions

• a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

• a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

• a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

• any joyous diversion

• the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

• something that happens at a given place and time

• a special set of circumstances

• a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

• (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines

• a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

• gathering of producers to promote business

• a competitive exhibition of farm products

• a sale of miscellany; often for charity

• in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating

• without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner

• not excessive or extreme

• very pleasing to the eye

• lacking exceptional quality or ability

• attractively feminine

• (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections

• gained or earned without cheating or stealing

• free of clouds or rain

• (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored

• join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly

• any joyous diversion

• an elaborate party (often outdoors)

• a gay festivity

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure

• a day on which work is suspended by law or custom

• spend or take a vacation

• a gay festivity

• a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)

• a gay feeling

• activities that are enjoyable or amusing

• an organization to gain political power

• a gathering of people for pleasure

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment

• a person involved in legal proceedings

• have or participate in a party

• unrestrained merrymaking

• a large and noisy party of people