Synonyms for carnival
ˈkɑr nə vəlcar·ni·val

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. carnival

   Synonyms:
   revel, rout, festivity, masquerade

   Antonyms:
   fast, mortification, lent, retirement

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1. carnivalnoun

   a festival marked by merrymaking and processions

   Synonyms:
   fair, funfair, circus

2. circus, carnivalnoun

   a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

   "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"

   Synonyms:
   fair, funfair, circus, genus Circus

3. carnival, fair, funfairnoun

   a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

   Synonyms:
   fair, funfair, pleasure ground, circus, amusement park, bazaar

Matched Categories

1. • Disturbance
   • Festival
   • Show

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1. List of paraphrases for "carnival":

   carnaval, carnivals, grendel, circus

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How to use carnival in a sentence?

1. Carel Pedre:

   We learned political groups planned to protest in the area of the palace, on Champ de Mars, which is the same area where Carnival activities will be concentrated.

2. Rodrigue Arcuri:

   We are happy to see the people of New Orleans finally able to return to normal and enjoy the Mardi Gras season, that is exactly what we have been advocating for.We are furious to see our so-called city leaders violating their own mask mandate all through the carnival season while demanding that ordinary citizens and children remain masked. The hypocrisy and privilege will no longer be tolerated. The silence from our state legislature is deafening. We see you, and we are coming for you.

3. Heloisa Aun:

   We live with harassment every day, but during carnival it's worse.

4. Cormac McCarthy:

   The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

5. State John Kerry:

   Carnival needs to not discriminate.