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convivial
Convivial (adj) means Friendly, lively and cheerful, especially at a social occasion with food and drink.
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Friendly, lively and cheerful, especially at a social occasion with food and drink.
"I spent many a convivial evening at the club."
"My grandpa was famously convivial."
"I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow."
— Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (1929)
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Etymology
Borrowed from French convivial, which came from Latin convīvium ("a feast"), a combined form of con- ("together") + vīvō ("to live").
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What is the meaning of convivial?
"convivial" (adj) means friendly, lively and cheerful, especially at a social occasion with food and drink.
What is the opposite of convivial?
Opposites of "convivial" include abstemious, saturnine, inhospitable, austere, unsociable.
