jollify

Questions about jollify

What is another word for jollify?

It depends which jollify you mean. In the sense “celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities”, the synonyms are revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, wassail. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of jollify?

WordNet records no antonym for jollify. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for jollify come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of jollify

• Full entry for jollifyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for jollifyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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