festal
festal adjective: festive, relating to a festival or feast.
Adjective
festal (comparative more festal, superlative most festal)
- festive, relating to a festival or feast
- His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery.1905, O. Henry, Telemachus, Friend
- They were, at any rate in their inception, genuinely religious or genuinely social and festal; and from either point of view they were far better than the secrecy of private indulgence which characterizes our modern world in these matters.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188
- Synonyms:
- merry
festal meaning in Malayalam
festal in Malayalam
- ഉല്ലാസമായ, ആഘോഷത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, അവധിദിവസത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ആഹ്ലാദപ്രദമായ
Examples of festal in a sentence
- Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible.2010 January, David Brakke, “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon”, in Harvard...
Synonyms of festal
Forms of festal
| comparative | more festal |
|---|---|
| superlative | most festal |
Origin of festal
From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).
Words formed from festal
Questions about festal
- What does festal mean?
- Festal means festive, relating to a festival or feast.
- What is festal in Malayalam?
- Festal in Malayalam is ഉല്ലാസമായ, ആഘോഷത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, അവധിദിവസത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച. See Festal meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use festal in a sentence?
- Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences.
- What part of speech is festal?
- Festal is an adjective.
Words near festal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: festal (page history and authors); festal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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