謳歌|おうかouka[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbrejoicing; glorification; exultation; celebration; enjoyment; singing praises

• Synonym賞賛しょうさんWrittenWritten word for commending and praising; more formal than 「褒める」. The standard choice when you praise others.
• Related賛美さんびWrittenWritten word for fervent, glowing praise, as in 「自然を賛美」. It leans further toward extolling its object than 謳歌 does.
• Related絶賛ぜっさんWrittenWritten word for the utmost praise, extolling something to the limit; also seen in 「絶賛発売中」 (now on sale).
• Related賛辞さんじWrittenWritten word for the words of praise themselves — a eulogy or complimentary remarks about a person, not the act of celebrating.
• Related礼賛らいさんWrittenWritten word: reverent praise bordering on worship; originally a Buddhist term for extolling the Buddha's virtues.
• Related褒めるほめるNeutralThe everyday word for praising someone's good points — by far the most common here. It praises another's merits, where 謳歌 celebrates what you enjoy.
• Related歓呼かんこWrittenWritten word: raising cries of joy, cheering. It names the shout of delight rather than the enjoyment itself.
• Related喝采かっさいWrittenWritten word: cheering and applause, as in 「拍手喝采」. It is acclaim voiced for someone else, not one's own enjoyment.
• Related嘆賞たんしょうWrittenWritten and rarely used: admiring and praising what impresses you. Unlike 謳歌, it has no sense of enjoying something yourself.
• Related賞嘆しょうたんWrittenRare written word: admiring and praising what moves you. Like 嘆賞, it carries no nuance of enjoyment.
• Related褒め称えるほめたたえるNeutralTo praise someone or something lavishly, typically people or their achievements. No nuance of enjoyment, unlike 謳歌.
• Related称揚しょうようWrittenRare written word: praising and exalting someone's merits. It lifts the object up but has no sense of enjoyment.
• Related称えるたたえるNeutralTo praise or hail someone, voicing respect and admiration, as in 「功績を称える」.
• Related三嘆さんたんWrittenRare written word for being struck with admiration again and again; most often met in the set phrase 「一読三嘆」.
• Related賛嘆さんたんWrittenWritten word: praising something out of deep admiration. The praise springs from heartfelt respect for its object.
• Related讃賞さんしょうWrittenRare written word: recognizing someone's good points and praising them. Appreciation of merit, with no reveling.
• Related褒めちぎるほめちぎるCasualColloquial: to praise to the skies, heaping on compliments without letup; it is pure effusive praise, with none of 謳歌's enjoyment.
• Related褒め立てるほめたてるNeutralTo praise someone warmly and enthusiastically. Enthusiastic complimenting of a person, with none of 謳歌's enjoyment.
• Related賞美しょうびWrittenRare written word: appreciating and praising something fine. Admiring appreciation rather than the active enjoyment of 謳歌.
• Related嘆美たんびWrittenRare written word: admiring and praising what impresses you. It expresses admiration, not 謳歌's delight in living.
• Related賛するさんするWrittenRare written word: to agree or endorse, or to add an inscription (画賛). Its link to 謳歌 is only the 'praise' sense.
• Related褒め上げるほめあげるCasualColloquial: to praise someone extravagantly, lifting them to the skies. Exaggerated praise of a person, not self-enjoyment.
• Antonym嘆くなげくNeutralAntonym: to lament or deplore, giving voice to sorrow or discontent — the opposite of 謳歌's joyful celebration.
• Antonym悲しむかなしむNeutralAntonym: to feel sad at heart, mourning or grieving — opposed to the joy of 謳歌.

Choose 「謳歌」 for fully enjoying and celebrating the good things in life — youth, freedom, peace — as in 「青春を謳歌する」. Most of the related words instead describe praising someone or something else: use 「賞賛」 or the everyday 「褒める」 to praise a person, and 「賛美」 to extol or glorify. Many others are written-style or rare words of admiration and acclaim (嘆賞, 絶賛, 賛辞, 礼賛…), while 「嘆く」 and 「悲しむ」 are its opposites, expressing sorrow instead of joy.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 喜よろこびを隠かくさず声こえに出だしたりして大おおいに楽たのしむこと。
2. 声こえを揃そろえて歌うたうこと。合唱がっしょう。
3. 多おおくの人ひとが揃そろって褒ほめること。
4. うわさをすること。