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to jollify

to jollify

9.8
Celebrate loudly with singing, dancing, and drinking
  • verb
  • /ˈdʒɑːləˌfaɪ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : celebrar
  • They jollified deep into the night, singing and dancing together.

Examples

  • The townspeople gathered in the square to jollify after their team's big win.

  • Every year, friends come together to jollify during the summer festival.

  • They love to jollify at every festival.

  • We jollified with friends last night!

  • The local community plans to jollify at the annual block party with music and dancing.

  • After winning the championship, the fans took to the streets to jollify and celebrate their team's success.

  • During the holidays, families gather to jollify with festive games and joyous laughter.

Synonyms

to revel
vsto jollify
17 4.9

To celebrate loudly with dancing and drinking

is more about lively noisy partying rather than specifically dancing
to riot
vsto jollify
  • Informal
4 7.1

To celebrate loudly and behave in a wild noisy way

is more about lively noisy partying and festive drinking rather than heavy drunkenness
to whoop it up
vsto jollify
  • Informal
3 8.8

To celebrate loudly with cheering and noisy fun

is similar but can include drinking and organized festive activities too
to make merry
vsto jollify
  • Archaic
2 5.6

Celebrate loudly with food, drink, and dancing

is often noisier and more about drinking and boisterous fun
to make whoopee
vsto jollify
  • Archaic
1 8.7

Enjoy a loud, lively party with dancing and drinking

is similar but tends to mean general noisy partying rather than playful antics
to roister
vsto jollify
  • Archaic
1 9.9

To party loudly and wildly, often drinking a lot

is rougher and more boisterous than ordinary noisy partying
to jubilate
vsto jollify
1 8.4

To feel or show great joy, for example after a big win

is more about lively noisy partying and drinking, not only inner joy
to wassail
vsto jollify
  • Archaic
9.9

To celebrate loudly with singing and drinking

is used more broadly for noisy partying beyond formal drinking toasts
to shivoo
vsto jollify
  • Archaic
9.9

To join a noisy, cheerful party with music and dancing

is broader, covering lively noisy celebrations with many kinds of festive fun

Antonyms

to mourn
191 3.0

Feel or show deep sadness after someone dies

to lament
  • Formal
62 5.0

To show or say that you feel sad about something

How Lively

to revel
17 4.9
to jollify
  • Archaic
9.8
to enliven
6 4.1
to amuse
153 1.4
to cheer
392 1.0

Surface Forms

jollify infinitive
jollified past
jollified past participle
jollifying present participle
jollifies third person singular

Morphology

jollify = jolly (transparent) = joll + ify

Formed by the adjective 'jolly' + productive suffix '-ify' meaning 'make X', so the meaning 'celebrate/make jolly' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Jollify comes from the word jolly ('cheerful') plus the ending -fy ('make'), the same ending you see in beautify or simplify, so it literally means 'make cheerful'. That's why to jollify is to celebrate and make things lively and noisy.