jolly

jolly is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, verb, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
2. superlative. Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
3. superlative. Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.
4. noun. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
5. noun. a happy party
6. verb. be silly or tease one another

   "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

   Synonyms: banter, chaff, josh, kid

7. adjective. full of or showing high-spirited merriment- Wordsworth

   "when hearts were young and gay"

   "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"

   Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful

8. adverb. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

   "pretty big"

   "pretty bad"

   Synonyms: fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat

Synonyms

banter, chaff, josh, kid, gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful, fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat

Common word forms

jollied, jollier, jollies, jollily, jollyer, jolliest, jollying

Words from these letters

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