CONVIVIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convivial mean? 

• CONVIVIAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONVIVIAL has 1 sense:

1. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company

  Familiarity information: CONVIVIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVIVIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company

Synonyms:

convivial; good-time

Context example:

he was a real good-time Charlie

Similar:

sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)

Derivation:

conviviality (a jovial nature)

 Context examples 

As the punch disappeared, Mr. Micawber became still more friendly and convivial.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Micawber was uncommonly convivial.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the Jazz History of the World was over girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)