Antonyms for
carnival
A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
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No Antonyms Found for Carnival

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All Definitions for Carnival

Below are all the dictionary definitions of carnival:

1A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
2A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
3Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
4A gaudily chaotic situation.
5A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
6To move about playfully or wildly.
7To participate in a carnival.
8The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
9Alternative form of carnival
10Especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent." [Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.]

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About antonyms for carnival

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