halcyon

The word “halcyon” has 3 syllables: hal-cy-on

It's pronounced as /ˈhælsɪən/


What is synonym and antonym for halcyon?

In the thesaurus, “halcyon” has 54 synonyms and 32 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for halcyon along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for halcyon

  • affluent
  • at peace
  • balmy
  • booming
  • boomy
  • bucolic
  • calm
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • comfortable
  • equable
  • fair
  • flourishing
  • gentle
  • golden
  • happy
  • harmonious
  • healthy
  • hushed
  • lown
  • lush
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moneyed
  • monied
  • opulent
  • palmy
  • pastoral
  • peaceful
  • placid
  • prospering
  • prosperous
  • quiet
  • rainless
  • rich
  • roaring
  • serene
  • soothing
  • still
  • stilly
  • substantial
  • successful
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • temperate
  • thriving
  • tranquil
  • untroubled
  • wealthy
  • well-heeled
  • well-off
  • well-to-do
  • windless

Antonyms for halcyon

Meanings of halcyon

  • noun
    1. A kingfisher said in classical mythology to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters.
    2. A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
  • adjective
    1. Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
    2. Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

Example Sentences

  • Halcyon days of childhood summers filled with laughter and sunshine lingered in her memories.
  • The artist captured the essence of a tranquil, halcyon evening in their landscape painting.
  • Amidst the chaos of the city, she found a quiet, halcyon spot by the river to reflect.
  • The small village nestled in the valley seemed untouched by time, embodying a halcyon way of life.
  • In literature, authors often reminisce about the halcyon days of youth, portraying them as a time of innocence and joy.

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to halcyon, such as: affluent, agitated, angry, at peace, balmy, bankrupt, bankrupted.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

balmy

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • benign
  • berserk
  • birdbrained
  • bland
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffering
  • buffoonish
  • bugged out
  • bughouse
  • calm
  • certifiable
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • compassionate
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • cushioning
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • easy
  • eccentric
  • emollient
  • empty-headed
  • equable
  • fair
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fey
  • fine
  • fixated
  • fool
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • genial
  • gentle
  • glorious
  • gormless
  • halcyon
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lenient
  • light
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mellow
  • mental
  • merciful
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • mild
  • mindless
  • moderate
  • moist
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonabrasive
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • off
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pacific
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • peaceful
  • pinheaded
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • quiet
  • rainless
  • raving
  • refreshing
  • ridiculous
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • serene
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sleek
  • slick
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • smooth
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softening
  • softheaded
  • soothing
  • strange
  • stupid
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • surd
  • teched
  • temperate
  • tender
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • tranquil
  • tropical
  • unbalanced
  • unconsidered
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsound
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warm
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud
  • zany

calm

  • affable
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • aloof
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • appease
  • arcadian
  • assuage
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at peace
  • balm
  • balmy
  • becalm
  • bland
  • bovine
  • breathless
  • breezeless
  • breezy
  • bucolic
  • calmness
  • carefree
  • casualness
  • centered
  • civil
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • collect
  • collected
  • comfort
  • comity
  • compose
  • composed
  • conciliate
  • concord
  • confident
  • consolation
  • contain
  • content
  • contentment
  • control
  • cool
  • cool as cucumber
  • cool it
  • cool out
  • cool-headed
  • coolheaded
  • dead
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • disciplined
  • disinterested
  • dispassion
  • dispassionate
  • doldrums
  • dull
  • ease
  • easygoing
  • easygoingness
  • equable
  • equal
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • fair
  • gentle
  • halcyon
  • happy-go-lucky
  • harmonious
  • harmony
  • heartsease
  • hold back
  • hush
  • hushed
  • impassive
  • impassivity
  • imperturbable
  • imperturbation
  • in order
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • informality
  • inscrutable
  • kind
  • laid-back
  • laid-backness
  • lay
  • lay back
  • level
  • levelheaded
  • limpid
  • listless
  • loosey-goosey
  • low
  • low-key
  • lown
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • mellow
  • mild
  • mildness
  • mitigate
  • moderate
  • mollify
  • motionless
  • muffled
  • mute
  • muted
  • narcotize
  • nerveless
  • neutral
  • noiseless
  • nonchalant
  • pacific
  • pacify
  • pastoral
  • patience
  • patient
  • pause
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peaceful
  • peacefulness
  • phlegmatic
  • placate
  • placid
  • placidity
  • pleased
  • poised
  • possessed
  • quell
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quieted
  • quieten
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • rainless
  • rally
  • re-collect
  • recollected
  • recover
  • relax
  • relaxed
  • relaxedness
  • relief
  • relieve
  • relieved
  • repose
  • reposeful
  • reposing
  • respite
  • rest
  • restful
  • restfulness
  • restrain
  • restraint
  • rural
  • salve
  • satisfied
  • sedate
  • self-assured
  • self-composed
  • self-contained
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • settle
  • silence
  • silent
  • simmer down
  • slow
  • smooth
  • sober
  • soft
  • soft pedal
  • solace
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • soothingness
  • soundless
  • speechless
  • steady
  • still
  • stillness
  • stilly
  • stoicism
  • stolid
  • stormless
  • stroke
  • stupefy
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • take it easy
  • take the edge off
  • temperate
  • together
  • tranquil
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquilized
  • tranquillity
  • tranquillize
  • tranquillized
  • ultraquiet
  • unconcerned
  • undisturbed
  • unemotional
  • unexcitable
  • unexcited
  • unflappable
  • unimpressed
  • unmoved
  • unperturbed
  • unruffled
  • unshakable
  • unshaken
  • untroubled
  • unworried
  • waveless
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • windless
  • wordless

elating

  • advantageous
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • arousing
  • attractive
  • beneficial
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • bright
  • calming
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • cheery
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • commoving
  • conducive
  • congenial
  • contenting
  • convenient
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • diverting
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • ecstatic
  • elevating
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • enjoyable
  • enlivening
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • expeditious
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • fine
  • fit
  • flattering
  • fortifying
  • fortunate
  • genial
  • glad
  • gladdening
  • golden
  • good
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • halcyon
  • happy
  • heartening
  • heavenly
  • helpful
  • hospitable
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • intoxicating
  • inviting
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • kindly
  • likely
  • lucky
  • luscious
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • opportune
  • palatable
  • personable
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pretty
  • probable
  • promiseful
  • propitious
  • providential
  • rapturous
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • recreative
  • rejoicing
  • relishable
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • rousing
  • satisfying
  • savory
  • savoury
  • soothing
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sweet
  • tasty
  • tempting
  • timely
  • transporting
  • uplifting
  • warming
  • welcome
  • well-timed

fair

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • abluted
  • about
  • aboveboard
  • absolute
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • adequate
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • all but
  • all right
  • all-out
  • alluring
  • almost
  • alright
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applicable
  • appreciably
  • appropriate
  • apt
  • argent
  • arrant
  • arresting
  • as good as
  • ash-blond
  • ash-blonde
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • assured
  • attractive
  • auction
  • auspicious
  • authentic
  • average
  • balanced
  • balmy
  • bazaar
  • beamish
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • benevolent
  • blameless
  • blanched
  • blank
  • bleached
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blondish
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • borderline
  • bright
  • bullish
  • by and large
  • calm
  • candid
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • celebration
  • centennial
  • chalky
  • charming
  • chaste
  • cheering
  • chiefly
  • chocolate-box
  • civil
  • clarion
  • classic
  • clean
  • cleanly
  • cleansed
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • colorless
  • comely
  • comforting
  • common
  • commonplace
  • competent
  • complete
  • condign
  • confident
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consummate
  • correct
  • courteous
  • crashing
  • creamy
  • cunning
  • cute
  • dainty
  • damn
  • damned
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decent
  • decisive
  • definite
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demonstration
  • deserved
  • desirable
  • dishy
  • disinterested
  • dispassionate
  • display
  • dollish
  • doubtless
  • downright
  • dreadful
  • drop-dead
  • dry
  • due
  • elegant
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • endless
  • engaging
  • equal
  • equitable
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • eternal
  • ethical
  • ethically
  • eupeptic
  • even-handed
  • evenhanded
  • exhibit
  • exhibition
  • expo
  • exposition
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravaganza
  • extreme
  • eye-catching
  • faded
  • fair-haired
  • fair-skinned
  • fairish
  • fairly
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • feckly
  • festival
  • fetching
  • fete
  • fine
  • fit
  • fitting
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flawless
  • flaxen
  • flaxen-haired
  • forthright
  • foxy
  • frank
  • frightful
  • gala
  • generous
  • gentle
  • genuine
  • germfree
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gold
  • golden
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • habitual
  • halcyon
  • handsome
  • heartening
  • high-mindedly
  • honest
  • honorable
  • honorably
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hot
  • huge
  • hunky
  • hygienic
  • immaculate
  • impartial
  • indifferent
  • intermediate
  • inveterate
  • irreproachable
  • just
  • just about
  • justified
  • kind of
  • knockout
  • largely
  • law-abiding
  • lawful
  • legal
  • legally
  • legitimate
  • light
  • likely
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luscious
  • magnificent
  • main
  • mainly
  • market
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • medium
  • meet
  • merited
  • middling
  • mild
  • milky
  • minimal
  • moderate
  • modest
  • moral
  • morally
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearly
  • neutral
  • next to
  • nice
  • nigh
  • nobly
  • nonpartisan
  • not bad
  • nubile
  • objective
  • observance
  • occasion
  • ocherous
  • ochreous
  • offering
  • okay
  • on the level
  • on the up and up
  • open
  • optimistic
  • ordinary
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • pageant
  • pale
  • pale-faced
  • paled
  • palish
  • pallid
  • partially
  • partly
  • passable
  • pasty
  • peaceful
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • pearly
  • perfect
  • performance
  • perpetual
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • plumb
  • positive
  • practically
  • praiseworthy
  • prepossessing
  • presentable
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • pretty
  • pretty good
  • pretty much
  • prettyish
  • principled
  • pristine
  • production
  • profound
  • promising
  • proper
  • propitious
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • purified
  • radiant
  • rainless
  • rank
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • regular
  • requisite
  • respectable
  • resplendent
  • rhadamanthine
  • right
  • righteous
  • rightful
  • rose-colored
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • sale
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • sandy
  • sanitary
  • satisfactory
  • scrubbed
  • scrupulous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • serene
  • sexy
  • sheer
  • shiny
  • show
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • silvery
  • simple
  • sincere
  • slick
  • smiling
  • snazzy
  • snowy
  • so-so
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • soothing
  • sparkling
  • spectacle
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • spotless
  • square
  • squeaky-clean
  • stainless
  • stark
  • statuesque
  • sterile
  • stone
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightforward
  • straw
  • strawberry blond
  • strawberry blonde
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • studly
  • stunning
  • sublime
  • sufficient
  • sufficing
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • superb
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • sure
  • surpassing
  • taintless
  • taking
  • tawny
  • telegenic
  • temperate
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • tolerable
  • toothsome
  • total
  • tow-haired
  • tow-headed
  • towheaded
  • tranquil
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unbiased
  • unblemished
  • unclouded
  • uncolored
  • uncompromising
  • unconditional
  • uncorrupted
  • undarkened
  • undefiled
  • undying
  • unexceptional
  • unhesitating
  • unimpeachable
  • unmitigated
  • unpolluted
  • unprejudiced
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • unsoiled
  • unstained
  • unsullied
  • untainted
  • unthreatening
  • up to standard
  • upbeat
  • upright
  • usual
  • utter
  • veritable
  • very
  • virtually
  • virtuous
  • wan
  • warranted
  • washed
  • well-favored
  • well-nigh
  • white
  • whitened
  • whitish
  • wholesome
  • within an inch of
  • zingy

happy

  • able
  • absorbed
  • acceptable
  • accidental
  • adequate
  • advantageous
  • anxious
  • appeased
  • applicable
  • appropriate
  • apt
  • ardent
  • auspicious
  • balanced
  • beaming
  • beatific
  • becoming
  • befitting
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • bright
  • buoyant
  • capable
  • chance
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • chuffed
  • coincidental
  • companionate
  • competent
  • concerned
  • condign
  • congruous
  • consonant
  • content
  • contented
  • convenient
  • convivial
  • correct
  • crazy
  • cut out
  • decent
  • decorous
  • delighted
  • deserved
  • distracted
  • dotty
  • ecstatic
  • elated
  • encouraging
  • engaged
  • engrossed
  • enraptured
  • entranced
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exhilarated
  • exuberant
  • exultant
  • fair
  • favorable
  • favored
  • felicitous
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • feverish
  • fit
  • fitted
  • fitting
  • flukey
  • fluky
  • flying high
  • foolish
  • fortuitous
  • fortunate
  • full
  • gay
  • gifted
  • glad
  • gladsome
  • gleeful
  • golden
  • good
  • gratified
  • halcyon
  • harmonious
  • heartening
  • heaven-sent
  • hopeful
  • hot
  • hung up
  • impassioned
  • in order
  • intoxicated
  • involved
  • jocund
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jubilant
  • just
  • justified
  • knee-deep
  • kosher
  • laughing
  • light
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • lucky
  • meet
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mollified
  • needed
  • nice
  • nuts
  • obsessed
  • occupied
  • on cloud nine
  • opportune
  • optimistic
  • overjoyed
  • pacified
  • passionate
  • peaceful
  • peppy
  • perky
  • pitch-perfect
  • placated
  • pleasant
  • pleased
  • preoccupied
  • prepossessed
  • pretty
  • privileged
  • profitable
  • promising
  • proper
  • propitious
  • providential
  • qualified
  • queer
  • rapt
  • rapturous
  • rejoicing
  • required
  • requisite
  • respectable
  • rhapsodic
  • rhapsodical
  • right
  • rightful
  • rosy
  • sanguine
  • satisfactory
  • satisfied
  • seasonable
  • seemly
  • serendipitous
  • serviceable
  • silly
  • smiling
  • sparkling
  • successful
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • thankful
  • thrilled
  • tickled
  • tickled pink
  • timely
  • tolerable
  • trained
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • unlooked-for
  • up
  • upbeat
  • walking on air
  • well-timed
  • worried

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