celebrative
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɛlɪbrətɪv/
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celebrativo
- The festival featured a celebrative atmosphere, with music, dancing, and joyful cheers from the crowd.
- celebrative community
Examples
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Since college and university presidents seem to feel their mere totemic presence is more important than anything requiring them either to think or to act, it is not surprising that chapter 6, "A Celebrative Community," lays such emphasis on purely ceremonial occasions.
Academic text (1990) -
It was semester's end, and they were all burying the dead and praising the living, so the atmosphere was celebrative, sort of like a New Orleans funeral at ten thousand watts.
Fiction book (1993) -
Celebrative (Positive responses indicate a strong sense of community.)
Academic text (1997) -
A celebrative community, one in which the heritage of the institution is remembered and where rituals affirming both tradition and change are widely shared.
Academic text (1997) -
These may be broadly categorized according to Boyer's six characteristics of community: disciplined, purposeful, caring, open, celebrative, and just.
Academic text (1997) -
It comes easier to think of "The Whitsun Weddings" as celebrative: "a vivid image of fertility" in Jean Hartley's phrase, "affirmative" in Edna Longley's.
Academic text (1991) -
During the gala, the guests enjoyed celebrative speeches that honored the achievements of the community.
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The celebrative decorations included colorful balloons and banners to mark the special occasion.
Synonyms
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2.4
Cheerful and suitable for a party or holiday
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4.0
Made to show happiness at a special event
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8.6
About a celebration like a party, giving a happy, lively feeling
How Celebratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Celebrative comes from the same root as celebrate, from the Latin celebrāre, which meant 'to honor' or 'to make famous'. So celebrative means 'relating to a celebration', and it describes things that show joy or praise at an event.