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発音

• IPA: /ˈfɛstɪv/
• ハイフネーション: fes‧tive
• 韻: -ɛstɪv

形容詞

festive (comparative more festive, superlative most festive)

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

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

   • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 35 (1968 edition):

     On festive occasions away from home we softened under the influence of Christmas trees, bran pies, and conjurors.

2. In the mood to celebrate.

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

同意語

• feastful
• feastly

派生語

副詞

fēstīvē (not comparable)

1. agreeably, pleasantly, delightfully
2. humorously, facetiously, wittily

関連する語

参照

• “festive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “festive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “festive”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.