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festal

adjective

festal is an adjective meaning “festive, relating to a festival or feast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-S-T-A-L, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does festal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    festive, relating to a festival or feast

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of festal

  • more festal comparative
  • most festal superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is festal?

Festal appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does festal come from?

From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).