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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

a humorous, playful or joking quality;

e.g. His jocular comments were not meant to be taken seriously.

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Similar Words

Blithe

Dabbling

Facetious

Festive

Gay

Gleeful

Humorous

Jocose

Jocund

Jokey

Jolly

Jovial

Ludic

Merry

Overjoyed

Slapstick

Sunny

Witty

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Opposite Words

Abject

Aggrieved

Anguished

Bad

Black

Bleak

Brainless

Businesslike

Cheerless

Clinical

Corny

Crying

Dark

Depressing

Desolate

Discontented

Disgruntled

Dismal

Dolorous

Dreary

Dull

Earnest

Earnestly

Grave

Gray

Grey

Hackney

Hackneyed

Humorless

Lachrymose

Lame

Lethargic

Listless

Lowbrow

Lugubrious

Melancholic

Moody

Morose

Plaintive

Professional

Saturnine

Sedate

Serious

Serious-minded

Severe

Sluggish

Sober

Solemn

Somber

Stupid

Suicidal

Sullen

Tearful

The

Torpid

Unfunny

Weeping

Weighty

Witless

Worse

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Related Words

Amused

Amusing

Animated

Antic

Artificial

Backhand

Backhanded

Blessed

Bouncing

Bright

Buoyant

Carefree

Cavalier

Cerebral

Cheerful

Cheery

Chipper

Coltish

Comedic

Comic

Comical

Counterfeit

Devil-may-care

Diverting

Double

Double-faced

Droll

Easygoing

Ecstatic

Elated

Entertaining

Euphoric

Exhilarated

Exuberant

Facetious

Fake

Farcical

Fay

Feigned

Flip

Flippant

Frisky

Frivolous

Frolicsome

Funny

Gladsome

Happy-go-lucky

High

Highbrow

Hilarious

Hopeful

Humorous

Hypocritical

Hysteric

Hysterical

Insincere

Intellectual

Janus-faced

Jaunty

Jive

Jocose

Jocund

Jolly

Jovial

Killing

Larky

Laughable

Left-handed

Lighthearted

Lip

Lively

Ludicrous

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Merry

Mischievous

Optimistic

Overjoyed

Peppy

Perky

Pert

Phony

Playful

Prankish

Radiant

Ridiculous

Riotous

Risible

Rollicking

Rosy

Sanguine

Scintillating

Screaming

Sidesplitting

Spirited

Sportful

Sportive

Sprightly

Sunny

Two

Two-faced

Unconcerned

Unctuous

Upbeat

Uproarious

Vivacious

Waggish

Whimsical

Witty

Zippy

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