Word Finder - festive

definition

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

example

The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.

definition

In the mood to celebrate.

example

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

Then the proceedings became festive, queens and great ladies taking part.

It was near ten o'clock the next morning when Martha awoke in a festive mood with the appetite of a hibernating bear.

The picture gallery is associated with the festive scenes that occurred during the short residence of Prince Charles in 1745; and in it the election of representative peers for Scotland takes place.

We put up festive lights and decorate a Christmas tree.

Pilgrimages to Mecca were not tied to a single time, but they were naturally associated with festive occasions, and especially with the great annual feast and market.

To get away from the temptation and bring Cynthia up to date, he left the festive group of plunderers and joined his wife in their room.

Every evening extracts from his great works, the Canon and the Sanatio, were dictated and explained to his pupils; among whom, when the lesson was over, he spent the rest of the night in festive enjoyment with a band of singers and players.

The Romans used to place the image of the goddess, crowned with flowers on festive occasions, in a sort of shrine in the centre of the architrave of the stable.

One night, having quitted a festive company because, from want of skill, he could not comply with the demand made of each guest in turn to sing to the harp, he sought his bed and fell asleep. He dreamed that there appeared to him a stranger, who addressed him by his name, and commanded him to sing of "the beginning of created things."

Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was justified, and all that morning a joyously festive mood reigned in the city.

Christmas was coming up and life in general felt festive.

He felt it not only from the sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more festive around him.

On every festive occasion, as a saint's day, birth, marriage, &c., it is customary for a rich man to collect his friends and neighbours, and kill a cow and one or two sheep. The principal parts of the cow are eaten raw while yet warm and quivering, the remainder being cut into small pieces and cooked with the favourite sauce of butter and red pepper paste.

A beautiful festive adornment that will grace any door or wall.

It got into Peel's Festive Fifty, but did it dominate the nation's airwaves like it should have?

It's a foodies paradise with an award-winning butcher and wonderful selection of goodies for your festive table.

In this festive and casual atmosphere you can feel comfortable eating your tacos with your fingers.

They can add a festive touch to an ordinary look.

Use for play or to add a little festive embellishment around the house.

That evening the dancing-girls came to go through the Natch dances, then as now so common on festive occasions in many parts of India; but he paid them no attention, and gradually fell into an uneasy slumber.

An audience of 22 were entertained most royally in the Village Hall by a delightful evening of festive carols.

You can either use a few songs or all in a grand and festive celebration of our Saviourâs birth.

So perhaps there is a note of festive cheer to strike about managed services.

Guests can choose either the set Christmas party menu or with prior arrangement choose from a festive table d'hote menu.

A sure sign that Christmas is just around the corner is the festive decorations.

Christmas Eve sees them serving up healthy dollops of festive fun.

Bodies were pressed closer together, although the atmosphere still seemed festive rather than aggressive.

The singing, unaccompanied throughout, was simply magnificent, making this show a real festive treat.

The mixture of races among the inhabitants, especially the presence of numerous Malays, who on all festive occasions appear in gorgeous raiment, gives additional animation and colour to the street scenes.

A festive meal program with musical accompaniment is included with typical Tuscan cuisine.

My lack of mobility and general state of ill health has meant a less materialistic Festive Season as shopping has been dramatically curtailed.

Cheryl a cute touch to make the season more festive.

The Headteacher's chair looked suitably festive during the last week of term, complete with colored lights!

This would include (in my book) not playing them in a high key unless you are all in truly festive mode.

The resorts look really festive when the Christmas decorations are up and the place is knee-deep in snow.

A situation that was probably quite festive suddenly turns nasty, and mere tiredness turns to terror at the prospect of being drowned.

And if you're feeling especially festive, why not try to track down Santa Claus himself?

This is the best way for you all to get festive without the cheese.

For a festive version, try black glitter yarn or add a fine metallic or nylon light-reflective filament.

Expect to see festive frolics involving our own ZEEB?

Clicky Play your cards right Those Labor gurus are a bundle of festive fun.

These festive menus are available from 17 November to 24 December 2003 Based on the dishes of the street hawkers from South East Asia.

No gold, just frank nonsense and myrth, mulled liquor and innocent festive merriment.

From panto to storytelling, carols to christmas tales, you're sure to find something to get you in the festive mood.

Many people consider a detox in January due to festive overindulgence.

The Pet Shop Boys provide what has to be the most barking festive topper ever.

Ultimate Christmas Collection Festive favorites to make the yuletide bright!

It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game - and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn, - nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.

But at least in private circles the festive character of the ceremonies predominated.

At every festive meeting many could contribute a poem or a story, many could even improvise the one or the other.