Thesaurus: jolly

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1. superl. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
2. superl. Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
3. superl. Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.
4. adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
5. n. a happy party
6. n. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
7. adv. to certain extent or degree
8. v. be silly or tease one another
9. 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth. 2. Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. Prior. Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear. Fairfax. 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. Spenser. The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions. W. Irving.