Festive vs Revelrous - What's the difference?
festive | revelrous | Synonyms |
Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
In the mood to celebrate.
Characterized by or engaged in boisterous merry-making.
* 1823 , Henry Fitzroy, Henry Fitzroy, the Young Midshipman , Chalmers & Collins (Glasgow),
* 1984 , Jim Moorhead, "
* 1996 , Fran Schumer, "
* 2006 , , When She Was Queen , ISBN 9780385661775,
Festive is a synonym of revelrous.
As adjectives the difference between festive and revelrous
is that festive is having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration while revelrous is characterized by or engaged in boisterous merry-making.festive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.
- Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.
Synonyms
* *revelrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 74:
- She was thus quietly occupied in her own apartment, and the festivities of the party that were assembled above, were loud and revelrous .
‘Superstar’ Company Acquits Itself Well," St. Petersburg Independent , 7 Feb., p. 6B (retrieved 21 Sep. 2009):
- An hour and a half of now-revelrous , now-subdued celebration hummed along with admirable energy.
Cyclists' Holiday," New York Times , 3 Nov. (retrieved 21 Sep. 2009):
- [M]y husband and I suffered in a Holiday Inn that was the scene of a revelrous post-wedding party.
p. 1:
- I was, if you will, the contingent phenomenon, a potential lurking in the unholy fug of a revelrous night spun out of control.