| 单词 | gaiety |
| 释义 | gaiety (once / 837 pages) n A festive, happy event, like a big summer backyard party, will be full of gaiety — or merriment and playfulness. The noun gaiety is the feeling of happiness and delight that might be present at a child's birthday party or a festive square dance. Gaiety can describe a person's generally joyful personality, or the sound of laughter in your house. It comes from the French word gaieté, "joy, merriment, lightheartedness," which evolved from gai, "charming, joyful, happy." The word can be correctly spelled gaiety or gayety, although the first spelling is much more common. WORD FAMILYgaiety: gaieties USAGE EXAMPLESThe first cocktail fashions reflected the gaiety and novelty of coed drinking. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) They even went on with the customary after-party—there are pictures of the gaiety. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) “Flower processions and folk dancing by thousands of people from every walk of life bring much gaiety to the place.” New York Times(Nov 10, 2016) 1n a joyful feeling Syn|Hypo|Hyper merriment glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness great merriment jocularity, jocunditya feeling facetious merriment jolliness, jollity, jovialityfeeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor happiness emotions experienced when in a state of well-being 2n a festive merry feeling Syn|Hyper playfulness levity feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness |
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