Jocular Definition

jŏkyə-lər
adjective
Characterized by joking.
American Heritage
Joking; humorous; full of fun.
Webster's New World
Said as a joke.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Jocular

  • Latin ioculāris droll from ioculus diminutive of iocus joke yek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iocularis, from ioculus (“a little jest”), diminutive of iocus (“a jest”).

    From Wiktionary

Jocular Sentence Examples

  • He hadn't been his usual jocular self for the last three weeks, and now this spontaneous trip to see his parents - and inviting her along?

  • This division gave rise to the jocular designation of judgment or mother-wit as the "secunda Petri."

  • He was very jocular, and about as good of walking on his hands as feet.

  • He is the great sportsman, the incomparable archer, the lover of the greenwood and of a free life, brave, adventurous, jocular, open-handed, a protector of women.

  • He is said to have been of a merry and even jocular disposition, to have afforded a generous patronage to learning, and, strange to say for a sultan, to have been master of six languages.

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