Synonyms for jolly
- adjective
- verb
- adverb
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Jovial — full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry
jovial, merry, cheerful, mirthful, joyous, jocular, cheery, happy, joyful, genial, lively, convivial, gay, jubilant, blithe, playful, hilarious, facetious, jocund, buxom, sportive, boon
Other
Verb
2. Make fair weather — to praise or talk up
palaver, tickle the ear informal, soothe, puff, preen, gloze, flatterize, collogue, make fair weather dated, brush up to slang dated, stroke dated, glaver dated
Adverb
1. Fairly — very, extremely
very, pretty, fairly, somewhat, reasonably, passably, moderately, middling
Definitions
- adj. 1
Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
- v. 1
To praise or talk up.
- v. 2
To amuse or divert.
- adv. 1
Very, extremely.
It’s jolly hot in here, isn’t it?
Related words
- Word family
- jollification jolliness jollytail
- Phrases
- jolly along jolly jumper jolly good show brown jolly jolly boat
Forms
- Past participle
- jollied
e.g. jollied → joked, kidded, bantered, jested…
Example sentences
- cheerful She is loved by everybody because she is cheerful.
- joyous To Boris's joyous surprise, there was a payphone there.
- jovial Santiago’s jovial mood angered Rima.
- flipping Tom tried flipping the pancakes with the frying pan.
By length
- 3 letters
- kid1, gay1
- 4 letters
- very2, joke1, josh1, boon1, puff1, jest1, jape
- 5 letters
- happy2, merry2, chaff1, buxom2, preen1, gloze
- 6 letters
- pretty2, fairly2, stroke1, lively2, banter2, joyful2, joyous2, soothe1, cheery2, jovial3, genial2, blithe1, jocund, glaver
- 7 letters
- playful2, jocular3, palaver
- 8 letters
- somewhat2, cheerful2, flipping2, middling3, jubilant3, sportive, passably3, mirthful, collogue
- 9 letters
- hilarious4, facetious3, convivial4
- 10 letters
- reasonably4, moderately4, flatterize
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (very2 = 2 syllables).