kumbaya

[koom-bahy-yah, koom-]

noun

1. (often used ironically) a belief in peace, harmony, goodwill, or naive idealism.

adjective

1. (often used ironically) characterized by or expressing a belief in peace, harmony, goodwill, or naive idealism.

interjection

1. (used to express or suggest peace, harmony, goodwill, or naive idealism, often ironically.)

Example Sentences

These episodes don’t necessarily end with participants finding common ground in a kumbaya moment.

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Neither mayor got the city of 8.5 million to sing “Kumbaya.”

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"We're nowhere near the kind of kumbaya moment that was projected."

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Now some of my friends on the right . . . will argue that now isn’t the time to go soft, hold hands and sing Kumbaya—if we don’t utilize the levers of power now, if we don’t stamp out toxic dissent now, if we don’t rectify the country now, then we never will, and that we have a short window to act right now and we got to step up and seize the moment.

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It wasn’t exactly joining hands with Galaxy supporters and singing “Kumbaya.”

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