jocular
/ˈdʒɒkjʊlə
/adjective
Fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful: she sounded in a jocular mood his voice was jocular...
- Harmless jokes or jocular winking at the workplace can lead to activation of such guidelines.
- It takes talent to transform a joke into a jocular jewel and the cast of the Mad Mission movies succeeds time and time again.
- Dublin had just demolished Donegal and he was in particularly jocular mood.
Synonyms
humorous, funny, witty, comic, comical, amusing, chucklesome, droll, entertaining, diverting, joking, jesting, hilarious, facetious, tongue-in-cheek;
playful, light-hearted, jolly, jovial, cheerful, cheery, merry, mirthful, roguish, waggish, whimsical, teasing
informal jokey
dated sportive
rare jocose, ludic
Derivatives
jocularity
/ noun ...- The jocularity soon gave way to ‘the bad omen theory’.
- Bartending is about banter and jocularity, but it is also often about maintaining a cautious eye, and to some extent, babysitting.
- But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity.
jocularly
/ adverb ...- He remarked jocularly, ‘It is because of the joint family that I am here now.’
- ‘The Rainbow Theatre once screened only English films and it was beyond my capacity to understand them,’ he confessed jocularly.
- ‘And the money is welcome too,’ says Ashdown jocularly.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin jocularis, from joculus, diminutive of jocus (see joke).
Rhymes
- quarter timber
- quarter time
- quarter-tonal
- quarter-tonality
- quarter-tone
- quarter-track
- quarter-turn
- quarter-turning
- quarter twist
- quarter-vine
- quarter-voided
- quarter waiter
- quarter-watch
- quarter-wave
- quarter-wave plate
- quarter-wheeling
- quarter wind
- quartessence
- quartet
- quartet table
- quartette
- quartetto
- quartetto table
- quartful
- quartic