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Festive vs Feastly - What's the difference?

festive | feastly |

As adjectives the difference between festive and feastly

is that festive is having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration while feastly is wont to or fond of festive occasions.

festive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
    • The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.
  • In the mood to celebrate.
    • Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.

    Synonyms

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    feastly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Wont to or fond of festive occasions.
  • * 2003 , Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babe?-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history :
    • Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.
  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
  • * 1994 , University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international :
    • So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for [...]