festive

From French festif, from Latin festivus (“pertaining to a feast, gay, lively, joyous”). Equivalent to feast +‎ -ive.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstɪv/

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• Hyphenation: fes‧tive

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.

2. In the mood to celebrate.

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

• feastful
• feastly

• festive season

festive

1. feminine singular of festif

festive

1. feminine plural of festivo

From fēstīvus (“joyous, festive; pleasing”), from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).

fēstīvē (not comparable)

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

• “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.