Jocose
[dʒə'kəʊs] or [dʒə'kos]
Definition
(a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Jocular, facetious, humorous, witty, waggish, droll, funny, comical, sportive, merry.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Humorous, funny, jocular, waggish, jolly, merry, facetious
ANT:Melancholy, serious, earnest, grave, lugubrious, lackadaisical
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Definition
adj. full of jokes: humorous: merry.—adv. Jocose′ly.—ns. Jocose′ness Jocos′ity the quality of being jocose.—adj. Joco-sē′rious half in jest half in earnest.
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Examples
- Mr. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well aged parent, said Wemmick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, how am you? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Steerforth, after very much improving Mrs. Gummidge's spirits by a cheerful salutation and a jocose embrace, took my arm, and hurried me away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Helstone and Sykes began to be extremely jocose and congratulatory with Mr. Moore when he returned to them after dismissing the deputation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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