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1. | Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. | |
2. | Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. | |
3. | Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. | |
v. t. | 1. | To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; - often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. |
n. | 1. | A marine in the English navy. |
Noun | 1. | jolly - a happy party |
2. | jolly - a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work Synonyms: jolly boat | |
Verb | 1. | jolly - be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" |
Adj. | 1. | jolly - full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" |
Adv. | 1. | jolly - used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him" Synonyms: pretty |