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#836. Cheerfulness. -- N. cheerfulness

• geniality

• gayety

• cheer

• good humor

• spirits

• high spirits

• animal spirits

• flow of spirits

• glee

• high glee

• light heart

• sunshine of the mind

• sunshine of the breast

• liveliness

• life

• alacrity

• vivacity

• animation

• jocundity

• joviality

• jollity

• levity

• jocularity

• (wit) 842

• mirth

• merriment

• hilarity

• exhilaration

• laughter

• merrymaking

• heyday

• rejoicing

• marriage bell

• nepenthe

• sweet forgetfulness

• optimism

• self complacency

• hedonism

• V. be cheerful

• have the mind at ease

• smile

• put a good face

• upon

• keep up one's spirits

• view the bright side of the picture

• view

• ridentem dicere virum[Lat]

• cheer up

• brighten up

• light up

• bear up

• chirp

• take heart

• cast away care

• drive

• dull care away

• perk up

• keep a stiff upper lip

• rejoice

• carol

• chirrup

• lilt

• frisk

• rollick

• give a loose to

• mirth

• cheer

• enliven

• elate

• exhilarate

• gladden

• inspirit

• animate

• raise

• the spirits

• inspire

• perk up

• put in good humor

• cheer the heart

• rejoice

• the heart

• delight

• Adj. cheerful

• happy

• cheery

• of good cheer

• smiling

• blithe

• in spirits

• in good spirits

• breezy

• bully

• chipper

• [U.S.]

• in high spirits

• in high feather

• happy as the day is long

• happy

• as a king

• gay as a lark

• allegro

• debonair

• light

• lightsome

• light

• hearted

• buoyant

• debonnaire

• bright

• free and easy

• airy

• jaunty

• sprightly

• spry

• spirited

• lively

• animated

• vivacious

• brisk as a bee

• sparklinly as a thrush

• jolly as a

• blithesome

• gleeful

• hilarious

• rattling

• winsome

• bonny

• hearty

• buxom

• playful

• playful as a kitten

• frisky

• frolicsome

• gamesome

• jocose

• jocular

• waggish;

• mirth loving

• laughter-loving

• mirthful

• rollicking

• elate

• elated

• exulting

• jubilant

• flushed

• rejoicing

• cock-a-

• hoop

• cheering

• inspiriting

• exhilarating

• cardiac

• pleasing

• palmy

• Adv. cheerfully

• Int. never say die! come! cheer up! hurrah!

• "hence loathed

• melancholy!" begone dull care! away with melancholy!

• Phr. "a merry heart goes all the day" [A winter's Tale]

• "as merry as

• the day is long" [Much Ado]

• ride si sapis [Lat][Martial]

#837. Dejection. -- N. dejection

• dejectedness

• depression

• prosternation|

• lowness of spirits

• depression of spirits

• weight on the

• spirits

• oppression on the spirits

• damp on the spirits

• low spirits

• bad

• spirits

• drooping spirits

• depressed spirits

• heart sinking

• heaviness of

• heart

• failure of heart

• heaviness

• gloom

• weariness

• taedium vitae

• disgust of life

• mal du pays

• melancholy

• sadness

• il penseroso[It]

• melancholia

• blues

• dumps

• blue devils

• doldrums

• vapors

• megrims

• spleen

• horrors

• hypochondriasis[Med]

• pessimism

• despondency

• slough of Despond;

• disconsolateness

• hope deferred

• blank despondency

• voiceless woe

• prostration of soul

• broken heart

• despair

• cave of despair

• cave of Trophonius

• demureness

• gravity

• solemnity

• long face

• grave face

• hypochondriac

• seek sorrow

• self-tormentor

• croaker

• pessimist

• mope

• [Cause of dejection] affliction

• sorry sight

• memento

• mori[Lat]

• damper

• wet blanket

• Job's comforter

• V. be dejected

• grieve

• mourn

• take on

• give

• way

• lose heart

• despond

• droop

• sink

• lower

• look downcast

• frown

• pout

• hang down the head

• pull a long

• face

• make a long face

• laugh on the wrong side of the mouth

• grin a

• ghastly smile

• look blue

• look like a drowned man

• lay to heart

• take to

• heart

• mope

• brood over

• fret

• sulk

• pine

• pine away

• yearn

• repine

• (regret) 8

• despair

• refrain from laughter

• keep one's countenance

• be grave

• look grave

• repress a smile

• depress

• discourage

• dishearten

• dispirit

• damp

• dull

• deject

• lower

• sink

• dash

• knock down

• unman

• prostrate

• break one's heart

• frown upon;

• cast a gloom

• cast a shade on

• sadden

• damp one's hopes

• dash one's hopes

• wither one's hopes

• weigh on the mind

• lie heavy on the mind

• prey on the

• mind

• weigh on the spirits

• lie heavy on the spirits

• prey on the spirits;

• damp the spirits

• depress the spirits

• Adj. cheerless

• joyless

• spiritless

• uncheerful

• unhappy

• melancholy

• dismal

• somber

• dark

• gloomy

• clouded

• murky

• lowering

• frowning

• lugubrious

• funereal

• mournful

• lamentable

• dreadful

• dreary

• flat

• dull

• dull as a beetle

• depressing

• "melancholy as a gib cat"

• oppressed with melancholy

• a prey to

• melancholy

• downcast

• downhearted

• down in the mouth

• down in one's luck;

• heavy-hearted

• in the dumps

• down in the dumps

• in the suds

• in the sulks

• in the doldrums

• in doleful dumps

• in bad humor

• sullen

• dumpish

• moping

• moody

• glum

• sulky

• out of sorts

• out of humor

• out of heart

• out of spirits

• ill at ease

• low

• spirited

• in low spirits

• a cup too low

• weary

• discouraged

• disheartened

• desponding

• jaw fallen

• crest fallen

• sad

• pensive

• penseroso[It]

• doleful;

• woebegone

• lacrymose

• lachrymose

• in tears

• melancholic

• hypochondriacal

• bilious

• jaundiced

• saturnine

• splenetic

• lackadaisical

• serious

• sedate

• staid

• stayed

• grave as a judge

• grave as an

• undertaker

• grave as a mustard pot

• sober

• sober as a judge

• solemn

• demure

• grim

• grim-faced

• grim-visaged

• rueful

• wan

• long-faced

• disconsolate

• unconsolable

• inconsolable

• forlorn

• comfortless

• desolate

• sick at heart

• soul sick

• heart sick

• au

• in despair

• lost

• overcome

• broken down

• borne down

• bowed down

• heartstricken

• cut up

• dashed

• sunk

• unnerved

• unmanned;

• down fallen

• downtrodden

• broken-hearted

• careworn

• Adv. with a long face

• with tears in one's eyes

• sadly

• Phr. the countenance falling

• the heart failing

• the heart sinking

• within one

• "a plague of sighing and grief" [Henry IV]

• "thick-ey'd musing

• and curs'd melancholy" [Henry IV]

• "the sickening pang of hope deferred"

• [Scott]

#838. [Expression of pleasure.] Rejoicing. -- N. rejoicing

• exultation

• triumph

• jubilation

• heyday

• flush

• revelling

• merrymaking

• (amusement) 840

• jubilee

• paean

• Te Deum

• (thanksgiving) 990[Lat]

• congratulation

• smile

• simper

• smirk

• grin

• broad grin

• sardonic grin

• laughter (amusement) 840

• risibility

• derision

• Momus

• V. rejoice

• thank one's stars

• bless one's stars

• congratulate

• oneself

• hug oneself

• rub one's hands

• clap one's hands

• smack the lips

• fling up one's cap

• dance

• skip

• sing

• carol

• chirrup

• chirp

• hurrah

• cry

• for joy

• jump for joy

• leap with joy

• exult

• triumph

• hold

• jubilee

• make merry

• laugh

• raise laughter

• Adj. rejoicing

• jubilant

• exultant

• triumphant

• flushed

• elated

• pleased

• delighted

• tickled pink

• amused

• cheerful

• laughable

• Phr. the heart leaping with joy

• ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de

• "Laughter holding both his sides" [Milton]

• "le roi est mort

• vive le roi"

• "with his eyes in flood with laughter" [Cymbeline]

#839. [Expression of pain.] Lamentation. -- N. lament

• lamentation;

• wail

• complaint

• plaint

• murmur

• mutter

• grumble

• groan

• moan

• whine

• whimper

• sob

• sigh

• suspiration

• heaving

• deep sigh

• cry

• scream

• howl

• outcry

• wail of woe

• ululation

• frown

• scowl

• tear

• weeping

• flood of tears

• fit of crying

• lacrimation

• melting mood

• weeping and gnashing of teeth

• plaintiveness

• condolence

• mourning

• weeds

• willow

• cypress

• crape

• deep mourning

• sackcloth and

• ashes

• knell

• deep death song

• dirge

• requiem

• elegy

• monody

• threnody

• jeremiad

• jeremiade|!

• mourner

• grumbler

• Noobe

• Heraclitus

• V. lament

• mourn

• deplore

• grieve

• weep over

• bewail

• bemoan

• condole

• with

• fret

• wear mourning

• go into mourning

• put

• on mourning

• wear the willow

• wear sackcloth and ashes

• infandum renovare

• dolorem

• give sorrow words

• sigh

• give a sigh

• heave

• fetch a sigh

• "waft a sigh from Indus to the

• pole" [Pope]

• sigh "like a furnace" [As you Like It]

• wail

• cry

• weep

• sob

• greet

• blubber

• pipe

• snivel

• whimper

• pule

• pipe one's eye

• drop tears

• shed tears

• drop a tear

• shed a tear;

• melt into tears

• burst into tears

• cry oneself blind

• cry one's eyes out

• yammer

• scream

• mew

• groan

• moan

• whine

• roar

• roar like a bull

• bellow like a bull

• cry out lustily

• rend

• the air

• frown

• scowl

• make a wry face

• gnash one's teeth

• wring one's hands

• tear one's hair

• beat one's breast

• roll on the ground

• burst with grief

• complain

• murmur

• mutter

• grumble

• growl

• clamor

• make a fuss about

• croak

• grunt

• maunder

• deprecate

• cry out before one is hurt

• complain without cause

• Adj. lamenting

• in mourning

• in sackcloth and ashes

• sorrowing

• sorrowful

• mournful

• tearful

• lachrymose

• plaintive

• querulous

• in the melting mood;

• in tears

• with tears in one's eyes

• with moistened eyes

• with watery

• eyes

• bathed in tears

• dissolved in tears

• "like Niobe all tears" [Hamlet]

• elegiac

• Adv. de profundis[Lat]

• Phr. tears standing in the eyes

• tears starting from the eyes

• eyes

• suffused

• eyes swimming

• eyes brimming

• eyes overflowing with tears

• "if

• you have tears prepare to shed them now" [Julius Caesar]

• interdum lacrymae

• pondera vocis habent [Lat][Ovid]

• "strangled his language in his tears"

• [Henry VIII]

• "tears such as angels weep" [Paradise Lost]

• <-- separate out entertainers which do not have their own entry

• e.g. musician. Need singer

• dancer

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#840. Amusement. -- N. amusement

• entertainment

• recreation

• fun

• game

• fun and games

• diversion

• divertissement

• reaction

• solace

• pastime

• sport

• labor of love

• pleasure

• relaxation

• leisure

• fun

• frolic

• merriment

• jollity

• joviality

• heyday;

• laughter

• jocosity

• drollery

• buffoonery

• tomfoolery

• mummery

• pleasantry

• wit

• quip

• quirk

• [verbal expressions of amusement: list] giggle

• titter

• snigger

• snicker

• crow

• cheer

• chuckle

• shout

• horse laugh

• belly laugh

• hearty

• laugh

• guffaw

• burst of laughter

• fit of laughter

• shout of laughter

• roar

• of laughter

• peal of laughter

• Kentish fire

• tiger

• play

• game

• game at romps

• gambol

• romp

• prank

• antic

• rig

• lark

• spree

• skylarking

• vagary

• monkey trick

• gambade

• escapade

• bout

• practical joke

• dance

• hop

• reel

• hornpipe

• bolero

• ballroom dance

• minuet[ballroom dances: list]

• waltz

• polka

• fox trot

• tango

• samba

• rhumba

• twist

• stroll

• hustle

• cha-cha

• fandango

• cancan;

• breakdown

• cake-walk

• cornwallis [U.S.]

• break dancing;

• nautch-girl

• shindig* [U.S.]

• stag dance

• Virginia reel

• square dance

• jig

• Irish jig

• fling

• gavotte

• tarantella

• mazurka

• morisco|

• morris dance

• quadrille

• country dance

• folk dance

• cotillon

• Sir Roger de Coverley

• ballet

• ball

• bal

• bal masque

• bal

• costume

• masquerade

• Terpsichore

• festivity

• merrymaking

• party

• blowout

• [U.S.]

• hullabaloo

• hoedown

• bat* [U.S.]

• bum* [U.S.]

• bust*

• clambake

• [U.S.]

• donation party [U.S.]

• fish fry [U.S.]

• jamboree*

• randy

• tear *

• yule

• log

• fete

• festival

• gala

• revels

• revelry

• reveling;

• carnival

• brawl

• saturnalia

• high jinks

• feast

• banquet

• regale

• symposium

• wassail

• carouse

• carousal

• jollification

• junket

• wake

• Irish wake

• picnic

• regatta

• field day

• treat

• round of pleasures

• dissipation

• a short life and a merry one

• racketing

• holiday making

• rejoicing

• jubilee

• bonfire

• fireworks

• feu-de-joie

• firecracker

• holiday

• gala day

• red letter day

• play day

• high days and holidays;

• high holiday

• Bank holiday

• May day

• Derby day

• Saint Monday

• Easter

• Monday

• Whit Monday

• bean feast

• Arbor Day

• Declaration Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Memorial Day

• Thanksgiving

• Day

• feria[Lat]

• fiesta

• place of amusement

• theater

• hall

• concert room

• ballroom

• music hall

• park

• national park

• national forest

• state park

• county park

• city park

• vest-pocket park

• public park (public) 737a

• arbor;

• garden

• pleasure ground

• playground

• cricketground

• croquet ground

• archery ground

• hunting ground

• tennis court

• racket court;

• bowling alley

• green alley

• croquet lawn

• rink

• skating

• rink

• roundabout

• merry-go-round

• swing

• game of chance

• game of skill

• athletic sports

• gymnastics

• archery

• rifle shooting

• tournament

• pugilism

• sports

• horse racing

• the turf;

• aquatics

• skating

• sliding

• cricket

• tennis

• lawn tennis

• hockey

• football

• baseball

• soccer

• ice hockey

• basketball

• rackets

• fives

• trap

• bat and ball

• battledore and shuttlecock

• la grace

• pall-mall

• croquet

• golf

• curling

• polo

• water polo

• tent

• pegging

• tilting at the ring

• greasy pole;

• quoits

• horseshoes

• discus

• rounders

• lacrosse

• tobogganing

• water polo;

• [childrens' games] leapfrog

• hop skip and jump

• mother may I

• French

• and English

• tug of war

• blindman's bluff

• hide and

• seek

• kiss in the ring

• snapdragon

• cross questions and crooked answers.;

• crisscross

• hopscotch

• jacks

• marbles

• mumblety-peg

• mumble-the-peg

• pushball

• shinney

• shinny

• tag

• billiards

• pool

• pingpong

• pyramids

• bagatelle

• bowls

• skittles

• ninepins

• tenpins [U.S.]

• tivoli

• cards

• card games

• whist

• rubber

• round game

• loo

• cribbage

• euchre

• quadrille

• omber

• reverse

• Pope Joan

• commit

• boston

• blackjack

• twenty-one

• thirty-one

• put

• speculation

• connections

• brag

• lottery

• commerce

• lift smoke

• blind hookey

• Polish bank

• Earl of

• Coventry

• Napoleon

• patience

• pairs

• banker

• blind poker

• draw poker

• straight poker

• stud poker

• bluff

• bridge

• bridge whist

• lotto

• monte

• three-card monte

• nap

• penny-ante

• poker

• squeezers

• old

• maid

• fright

• beggar-my-neighbor

• baccarat

• [cards: list] ace

• king

• queen

• knave

• jack

• ten

• nine

• eight

• seven

• six

• five

• four

• trey

• deuce

• joker

• trump

• wild card

• [card suits: list] spades

• hearts

• clubs

• diamonds

• major suit

• minor

• suit

• bower

• right bower

• left bower

• dummy

• jackpot

• deck

• [hands at poker: list] pair

• two pair

• three of a kind

• straight

• flush

• full-house

• four of a kind

• royal flush

• misere

• [board games: list] chess

• draughts

• checkers

• checquers

• backgammon

• dominos

• nine men's morris

• go bang

• solitaire

• game of fox

• and goose

• monopoly

• loto

• scribbage

• boggle

• crossword

• puzzle

• hangman

• gambling

• toy

• plaything

• bauble

• doll

• knickknack

• magic lantern

• peep show

• puppet show

• raree show

• toy shop

• "quips and cranks

• and wanton wiles

• nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]

• entertainer

• showman

• showgirl

• dancer

• tap dancer

• song-and-dance

• man

• vaudeville act

• singer

• musician

• sportsman

• gamester

• reveler

• master of ceremonies

• master of revels;

• arbiter elegantiarum[Lat]

• arbiter bibendi[Lat]

• archer

• fan [U.S.]

• V. amuse

• entertain

• divert

• enliven

• tickle the fancy

• titillate

• raise a smile

• put in good humor

• cause laughter

• create laughter

• occasion

• laughter

• raise laughter

• excite laughter

• produce laughter

• convulse with

• laughter

• set the table in a roar

• be the death of one

• recreate

• solace

• cheer

• rejoice

• please

• interest

• treat

• regale

• amuse oneself

• game

• play a game

• play pranks

• play tricks

• sport

• disport

• toy

• wanton

• revel

• junket

• feast

• carouse

• banquet

• make merry

• drown care

• drive dull care away

• frolic

• gambol

• frisk

• romp

• caper

• dance

• keep up the ball

• run a rig

• sow one's wild oats

• have

• one's fling

• take one's pleasure

• paint the town red*

• see life

• desipere

• in loco[Lat]

• play the fool

• make holiday

• keep holiday

• go a Maying

• while away the time

• beguile the time

• kill time

• dally

• smile

• simper

• smirk

• grin

• grin like a Cheshire cat

• mock

• laugh in

• one's sleeve

• laugh

• laugh outright

• giggle

• titter

• snigger

• crow

• snicker

• chuckle

• cackle

• burst out

• burst into a fit of laughter

• shout

• split

• roar

• shake one's sides

• split one's sides

• hold both one's sides

• roar with

• laughter

• die with laughter

• Adj. amusing

• entertaining

• diverting

• recreational

• recreative

• pleasant

• laughable

• (ludicrous)

• witty

• fun

• festive

• festal

• jovial

• jolly

• jocund

• roguish

• playful

• playful as a kitten

• sportive

• ludibrious|

• funny

• very funny

• hilarious

• uproarious

• side-splitting

• amused

• "pleased with a rattle

• tickled with a straw" [Pope];

• laughing

• risible

• ready to burst

• ready to split

• ready to die

• with laughter

• convulsed with laughter

• rolling in the aisles

• Adv. "on the light fantastic toe" [Milton]

• at play

• in sport

• Phr. deus nobis haec otia fecit[Lat]

• dum vivimus vivamus[Lat]

• dulce

• est desipere in loco [Lat][Horace]

• "(every room) hath blazed with lights

• and brayed with minstrelsy" [Timon of Athens]

• misce stullitiam consiliis

• brevem [Lat][Horace]