Pronunciation Adjective
jocular
- Humorous, amusing or joking.
- He was in a jocular mood all day.
- All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
- 1865, Horatio Alger, Paul Prescott's Charge, chapter IV:
- From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular.
- 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, chapter 15:
- Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
- 1910, Stephen Leacock, The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones:
- Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.
- (humorous) jokey, silly, joculous; see also Thesaurus:witty
- French: facétieux, amusant, humoristique
- German: scherzhaft, spaßig, witzig
- Portuguese: jocoso
- Russian: шутли́вый
- Spanish: humorístico
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