jocular

Speech parts

1. jocular - Adjective

2. jocular - Adverb

3. jocular - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person.

Sportive; merry.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

joking jesting jocose jocosely jokey merry jolly blithe sportive sprightly comic happy gay humorous funny
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Antonyms

serious hackney black graves low blue
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Related terms

joke

Examples

they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly Source: Internet

Burton acted as publisher, while also furnishing the edition with footnotes whose tone ranges from the jocular to the scholarly. Source: Internet

He promised me this with promptness, making the jocular remark that his chief trouble was to find places for the too many generals who wanted to be at the head of affairs, to command armies, etc." Source: Internet

One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar". Source: Internet

It gave church music more of a jocular performance quality removing the solemn worship they were accustomed to. Source: Internet

A source of some confusion has been Granholm's jocular citation of the wholly fictitious lexicographer, Phineas Burling, of the firm "Fink and Wiggles" (for Funk & Wagnalls ) as confirming the Germanic origin of the word. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

jocote de mico Jocson jocteleg jocularism jocularity jocularly