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festive

adj
/ˈfɛstɪv/

Etymology

From French festif, from Latin festivus (“pertaining to a feast, gay, lively, joyous”). Equivalent to feast + -ive.

  1. derived from festivus — “pertaining to a feast, gay, lively, joyous”
  2. derived from festif

Definitions

  1. Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.

    • The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.
    • On festive occasions away from home we softened under the influence of Christmas trees, bran pies, and conjurors.

  2. In the mood to celebrate.

    • Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.

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Derived

festively, festiveness, festive season, nonfestive, postfestive, unfestive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at festive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01festive02holiday03secular04timeless05improper06inappropriate07unpleasant08pleasant09pleasing10cheer

A definitional loop anchored at festive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at festive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA