Antonyms for heyday

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hey-dey

Phonetic Transcription : ˈheɪˌdeɪ

Definition of heyday

Origin : late 16c., alteration of heyda (1520s), exclamation of playfulness or surprise, something like Modern English hurrah, apparently an extended form of Middle Elish interjection hey or hei (see hey). Modern sense of "stage of greatest vigor" first recorded 1751, which altered the spelling on model of day, with which this word apparently has no etymological connection.

noun prime

Example sentences :

Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If childhood is the sunrise of life, youth is the heyday of life's ruddy June.
Extract from : « Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales » by Robert L. Taylor

In the heyday of my youth I could fly around the world in five hours.
Extract from : « David and the Phoenix » by Edward Ormondroyd

As for the princess—well, you're young; in the heyday for such nonsense.
Extract from : « Under the Rose » by Frederic Stewart Isham

They would not have troubled her in the heyday of her youth!
Extract from : « The Buffalo Runners » by R.M. Ballantyne

All was lightness, gayety, and warmth; the sap was running, the heyday of the spring at hand.
Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston

Their heyday, and carousals, and happy-go-luckiness all gone, and in the remaining hours—what?
Extract from : « Red Men and White » by Owen Wister

Is it for this that in the heyday of youth I walked with you to the school-house down the road!
Extract from : « Chanticleer » by Cornelius Mathews

Any woman can keep a house or manage a babe: heyday, can she so?
Extract from : « Joyce Morrell's Harvest » by Emily Sarah Holt

To be sure your ladyship is in the heyday of life, with youth and strength.
Extract from : « The Lady of Lynn » by Walter Besant

Synonyms for heyday

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