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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

characterized by good-humored, cheerfulness, or full of happiness;

e.g. They had a jovial time at the parade.

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Similar Words

Approachable

Beatific

Blithe

Festive

Gay

Gleeful

Jocose

Jocular

Jocund

Jokey

Jolly

Merry

Overjoyed

Slapstick

Sunny

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Opposite Words

Abject

Aggrieved

Anguished

Bad

Black

Bleak

Cheerless

Crying

Dark

Depressing

Desolate

Despairing

Desperate

Discontented

Disgruntled

Dismal

Dolorous

Dreary

Dull

Gray

Grey

Hopeless

Lachrymose

Lethargic

Listless

Lugubrious

Melancholic

Moody

Morose

Plaintive

Saturnine

Sluggish

Somber

Suicidal

Sullen

Tearful

Teary

The

Torpid

Weeping

Worse

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Related Words

Aglow

Amicable

Amused

Amusing

Animated

Antic

Blessed

Blithe

Boon

Bouncing

Bright

Buddy-buddy

Buoyant

Carefree

Cavalier

Cheerful

Cheery

Chipper

Chummy

Clever

Clubby

Comedic

Comic

Comical

Companionable

Convivial

Cordial

Delightful

Devil-may-care

Diverting

Droll

Easygoing

Ecstatic

Elated

Entertaining

Eupeptic

Euphoric

Exhilarated

Extroverted

Exuberant

Facetious

Farcical

Flippant

Friendly

Frisky

Frolicsome

Fun

Funny

Gay

Gladsome

Gregarious

Happy-go-lucky

Hearty

High

Hilarious

Hopeful

Humorous

Hysteric

Hysterical

Jaunty

Jocular

Killing

Laughable

Lighthearted

Lively

Ludicrous

Neighborly

Optimistic

Outgoing

Overjoyed

Palsy

Palsy-walsy

Peppy

Perky

Playful

Pleasurable

Radiant

Ridiculous

Riotous

Risible

Rosy

Sanguine

Screaming

Sidesplitting

Smart

Sociable

Social

Spirited

Sportive

Sprightly

Sunny

Thankful

Unconcerned

Upbeat

Uproarious

Vivacious

Warmhearted

Winsome

Witty

Zippy

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