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Synonyms for revel

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

enjoy bask wallow luxuriate make merry jollify rejoice

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Wallow

wallow, enjoy, bask, luxuriate, indulge, delight in, delight

2. Make merry

make merry, wanton, whoop it up, wassail, racket, racquet UK, jollify, make whoopee slang

3. Rejoice — to make merry; to have a happy, lively time

rejoice, celebrate, feast, banquet, carouse, roister

Noun

1. Revelry

revelry, festivity, debauch, riot, carnival, jubilee, spree, carousal, saturnalia, jollification, compotation dated

Other

shindig

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

  2. v. 2

    To take delight (in something).

  3. n. 1

    An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

Related words

Word family
revelry reveler revelment

Forms

Plural
revels → revelries, festivities, debauches, riots…
Past participle
reveled
e.g. reveled → wallowed, enjoyed, basked, luxuriated…

Example sentences

  • enjoy It won't be long before we can enjoy space travel.
  • bask I cannot bask in the sun. It's too hot now.
  • wallow A pig will wallow in the mud in order to cool down.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
revelrising
enjoyrising
baskrising
wallowrising
luxuriaterising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
riot2, bask1
5 letters
enjoy2, feast1, spree1
6 letters
racket2, wanton2, wallow2
7 letters
delight2, banquet2, indulge2, rejoice2, jubilee3, racquet2, revelry3, shindig2, wassail, debauch, carouse2, roister2, jollify
8 letters
carnival3, carousal
9 letters
celebrate3, festivity4, luxuriate
10 letters
saturnalia
11 letters
compotation
13 letters
jollification

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (riot2 = 2 syllables).