jolly

[jol·ly]

Someone who's jolly is extremely cheerful. Your jolly French teacher might spend a large part of each class laughing out loud at his own jokes if only you understood French, you could laugh along with him.

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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

Noun
a yawl used by a ship''s sailors for general work

Noun
a happy party

Verb
be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

Adjective S.
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"

Adverb
used as an intensifier (`jolly'' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"

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superl.
Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

superl.
Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.

superl.
Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.


Jolly

Jol"ly , a. [Compar. Jollier ; superl. Jolliest.] [OF. joli, jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. yule; cf. Icel. jl yule, Christmass feast. See Yule.] 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
2. Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.
Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.
3. Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. "A jolly cool wind." Sir T. North. [Now mostly colloq.]
Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.
The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions.

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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Usage Examples

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

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