jolly
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,942 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,571 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- full of or showing high-spirited merriment also: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful when hearts were young and gaya poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
noun
- a happy party
- a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work also: jolly boat
verb
- be silly or tease one another also: kid, chaff, josh, banter After we relaxed, we just kidded around
adverb
- to certain extent or degree also: reasonably, moderately, pretty, somewhat, fairly, middling pretty bigpretty bad
jolly in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But you were thought so jolly clever.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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John stammered out something about good food and jolly talk.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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His face was burly, jolly, and reddened rather than tanned by long exposure.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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At last he saw the first beams from jolly, round, red Mr. Sun creeping through the Green Forest.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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It was all very jolly, and I don't know which the children enjoyed more, throwing the sticks or the nice cool showers.
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1