Gayety

Word GAYETY
Character 6
Hyphenation gay e ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Gayety"

What do we mean by gayety?

See gaiety. noun

The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural. noun

Finery; show. noun

Alternative spelling of gaiety. noun

The state of being happy or merry.

Merrymaking or festivity.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gayety

The word "gayety" in example sentences

A round of gayety is alike fascinating and unprofitable; it wastes time, distracts attention, and makes everyday duties and pleasures appear dull and uninteresting. ❋ Unknown (1831)

"So do I, darling," says the mother, and looks at her with a tender inquisitiveness that makes the sweet girl flinch, and affect for a moment a noisy gayety, which is not in her heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

For many days they joked each other about that headlong flight, but underneath their gayety was a dread which persisted. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

He had been dull, just at first, and his gayety was a little forced, but after his first glass of champagne he brightened up very much, and had begun to tell a funny story. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The outward peace of such a man is but despair well masked; his gayety is the carelessness of ❋ Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel (1885)

September, and recalled the gayety of the season for the moment to the desolate metropolis. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

His gayety was a little extravagant, and so it might naturally be if it were forced. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

Even in the hour of social mirth, my gayety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Evening is the festive hour in camp; though I judge, from what I have seen and heard, that our camp has little of the gayety which is commonly associated with the soldier's life. ❋ Various (N/A)

He joined the society known as the Knights of the Square Table, and at the lively meetings of the club, where wine and wit passed freely about the table, he was introduced to a kind of gayety undreamed of in his quiet home. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

The "gayety" was obvious even to the most casual traveler whose train stopped for three noisy minutes at the Medora "depot." ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)

Archie's "gayety" with his "six-shooter" seemed to stir no emotion in his father except pride. ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)

She changed from seriousness to a mocking kind of gayety -- that is, to a seriousness so profound that she would not show it. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Though there may be a kind of gayety in this, yet I'll hazard that in the whole range of quadricycle life no vehicle is more free from any taint of riotous conduct. ❋ Unknown (1906)

She is seldom definite enough in her descriptions to be Much of the time we miss even the sunshine, the blue sky, that redolence of warmth and colour and superficial gayety which is the very essence of Italy -- which fills every page of Stendahl's Chartreuse de Parme, is woven into the woof and warp of Romola, and goes far toward redeeming even the tawdry sensationalism of such a writer as Ouida. ❋ Unknown (1902)

She was naturally serious, but towards the end of her illness she possessed a kind of gayety, too regular to be assumed, which served as a counterpoise to the melancholy of her situation. ❋ Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1896)

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