Synonyms for Jolly:

adj.
• amusing
- Distracting
- Light-hearted
- amusing
- beguiling
- charming
- delightful
- diverting
- entertaining
- enthralling
- frivolous
- fun
- hilarious
- playful
- pleasing
- recreational
- refreshing
- relaxing
- rollicking
- stimulating
• blithe
- chirpier
- chirpiest
- more gladsome
- most gladsome
• cheerful
- affable
- agreeable
- amiable
- bright
- buoyant
- cheery
- complaisant
- congenial
- cordial
- easygoing
- friendly
- full of pep
- glad
- jaunty
- lively
- optimistic
- pleased
- sparkling
- spirited
- sunny
- sunny side up
- up-beat
- warm
- zappy
- zingy
• jovial
- Conversable
- jollying
- off-the-wall
• joyful
- doing handsprings
- Flipping
• pleasant
- copacetic
- fine and dandy
- mild-mannered
• pleasurable
- ambrosial
- blissful
- bonny
- delectable
- enchanting
- enjoyable
- enlivening
- favorable
- fine
- pleasurable
- sweet
- unobjectionable
• convivial
- back slapping
- clubbier
- clubbiest
- glad handering
- gladhandering
- more back slapping
- more back-slapping
- more backslapping
- more conversible
- more festal
- more glad handering
- more glad-handering
- more gladhandering
- more holiday
- most back slapping
- most back-slapping
- most backslapping
- most conversible
- most festal
- most glad handering
- most glad-handering
- most gladhandering
- most holiday
• effervescent
- ex cited
- ex-cited
- irrepressible
• festive
- GOGO
- Rocking
- go go
- juiced up
- more carnival
- more carnivalesque
- more go go
- more go-go
- more gogo
- more grooving
- more rocking
- most carnival
- most carnivalesque
- most go go
- most go-go
- most gogo
- most grooving
- most rocking
- swinging
• funny
- farcical
- funnier
- gassest
- killing
- knee slapper
- kneeslapper
- more antic
- more gelastic
- more humdinger
- more killing
- more knee slapper
- more knee-slapper
- more kneeslapper
- more screaming
- more side splitting
- more side-splitting
- most antic
- most gelastic
- most humdinger
- most killing
- most knee slapper
- most knee-slapper
- most kneeslapper
- most screaming
- most side splitting
- most side-splitting
- most sportive
- riotest
- screaming
- side splitting
• gay
- devil may care
- fun loving
- funloving
- more fun loving
- more fun-loving
- more funloving
- more gamesome
- more pleasure seeking
- more pleasure-seeking
- more pleasureseeking
- most fun loving
- most fun-loving
- most funloving
- most gamesome
- most pleasure seeking
- most pleasure-seeking
- most pleasureseeking
- pleasure seeking
- pleasureseeking
- self assertive
- self-assertive
- selfassertive
• genial
- more warm hearted
- more warm-hearted
- most warm hearted
- most warm-hearted
- warm hearted
• gleeful
- booner
- boonest
- de lighted
- de-lighted
- over joyed
- over-joyed
• happy
- cant complain
- more blest
- more captivated
- most blest
- most captivated
- peaceful
- walking air
• hearty
- deep felt
- deepfelt
- heartiest
- in tense
- in tenser
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- more deep felt
- more deep-felt
- more deepfelt
- most deep felt
- most deep-felt
- most deepfelt
- pro fuse
- pro-fuse
- un feigned
- un-feigned
- un-reserved
- un-restrained
• hilarious
- gut busting
- gutbusting
- more gut busting
- more gut-busting
- more gutbusting
- most gut busting
- most gut-busting
- most gutbusting
- screamest
• jaunty
- flippest
- impish
- more prankish
- more swaggering
- most prankish
- most swaggering
- pro vocative
- pro-vocative
- self confident
- selfconfident
• jocular
- more boffo
- most boffo
• jocular/jocose/jocund
- jokier
- jokiest
- more jesting
- more joshing
- most comic
- most jesting
- most jocose
- most jocund
- most joshing
- teasing
• lighthearted
- feelgood
- happy go lucky
- laidback
- more feelgood
- more lightsome
- most feelgood
- most lightsome
• merry
- more rip roaring
- more rip-roaring
- more riproaring
- more saturnalian
- most rip roaring
- most rip-roaring
- most riproaring
- most saturnalian
- rip roaring
- rip-roaring
- un constrained
• vivacious
- full of life
adv.
• highly
- but good
- immensely
- so much
- strikingly
- supremely
- terrifically
- mucho
n.
• event
- jolly
• jest
- bons mots
- one liner
- oneliner
- rib ticklers
- rib-ticklers
- ribtickler
- ribticklers
v.
• cajole
- argue in to
- argued in to
- argued into
- argues in to
- argues into
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- de coy
- de coyed
- de coying
- de coys
- de lude
- de ludes
- de-coy
- de-coyed
- de-coying
- de-coys
- de-lude
- de-ludes
- gat around
- gat next to
- gets around
- gets next to
- getting next to
- got around
- got next to
- gotten around
- gotten next to
- handed a line
- handed line
- handing a line
- handing line
- hands a line
- hands line
- in duce
- in duces
- in-duce
- in-duces
- laid it on thick
- laid it thick
- laid thick
- lay it thick
- lay thick
- laying it thick
- laying on thick
- laying thick
- lays it on thick
- lays it thick
- lays on thick
- lays thick
- made to
- made up to
- make to
- makes to
- makes up to
- making to
- making up to
- mis lead
- mis leading
- mis leads
- mis-lead
- mis-leading
- mis-leads
- play to
- played to
- played up to
- playing to
- playing up to
- plays to
- plays up to
- rub right way
- rubbed right way
- rubbed the right way
- rubbing right way
- rubbing the right way
- rubs right way
- rubs the right way
- soft soaped
- soft soaping
- soft-soaps
- softsoap
- softsoaped
- softsoaping
- softsoaps
- spreading it on
- spreading on
- spreads it on
- spreads on
- suck to
- sucked to
- sucked up to
- sucking to
- sucking up to
- sucks to
- sucks up to
- sweetened up
- sweetening up
- sweetens up
- works on
- works over
- wrought on
- wrought over
• deride
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de tract
- de tracts
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- did a number on
- did number on
- didst a number on
- didst number on
- dissed
- disses
- does a number on
- does number on
- doest a number on
- doest number on
- doeth a number on
- doeth number on
- doing a number on
- doing number on
- dost a number on
- dost number on
- doth a number on
- doth number on
- dumping on
- dumps on
- poohpooh
• fawn
- am at beck and call
- am at beck call
- am beck and call
- am beck call
- am obsequious
- am servile
- are at beck and call
- are at beck call
- are beck and call
- are beck call
- are servile
- art at beck and call
- art at beck call
- art beck and call
- art beck call
- art obsequious
- art servile
- be at beck call
- be beck and call
- be beck call
- being at beck and call
- being at beck call
- being beck and call
- being beck call
- being obsequious
- being servile
- buddied up
- buddies up
- buddying up
- cave into
- cave to
- caved in to
- caved into
- caved to
- caves in to
- caves into
- caves to
- caving in to
- caving into
- caving to
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- fall knees
- fall on knees
- fall on one knees
- fall on ones knees
- fall one knees
- fall one's knees
- fall ones knees
- falling all over
- falling knees
- falling on knees
- falling on one knees
- falling on one's knees
- falling on ones knees
- falling one knees
- falling one's knees
- falling ones knees
- falling over
- falls all over
- falls knees
- falls on knees
- falls on one knees
- falls on one's knees
- falls on ones knees
- falls one knees
- falls one's knees
- falls ones knees
- fell all over
- fell knees
- fell on knees
- fell on one knees
- fell on one's knees
- fell on ones knees
- fell one knees
- fell one's knees
- fell ones knees
- fell over
- honeyed up
- honeying up
- honeys up
- honied up
- in vite
- is at beck and call
- is at beck call
- is beck and call
- is beck call
- is obsequious
- is servile
- laid it on
- laying it on
- lays it on
- licked boots
- licking boots
- licks boots
- paid court
- payed court
- paying court
- pays court
- was at beck and call
- was at beck call
- was beck and call
- was beck call
- was obsequious
- was servile
- wast at beck and call
- wast at beck call
- wast beck and call
- wast beck call
- wast obsequious
- wast servile
- were at beck and call
- were at beck call
- were beck and call
- were beck call
- were obsequious
- were servile
- wert at beck and call
- wert at beck call
- wert beck and call
- wert beck call
- wert obsequious
- wert servile
• flatter
- Beslavered
- Beslavering
- be slaver
- be slavered
- be slavering
- be slavers
- be-slaver
- be-slavered
- be-slavering
- be-slavers
- beslavers
- over praise
- over praised
- over praises
- over praising
- over-praise
- over-praised
- over-praises
- over-praising
• inveigle
- co axed
- co axing
- co-axed
- co-axing
- overdid it
- overdoes it
- ropes in
- roping in
- softened up
- softening up
- softens up
- strung along
• joke
- play clown
- played clown
- played the clown
- played tricks
- playing clown
- playing the clown
- playing tricks
- plays clown
- plays the clown
- plays tricks
- poked fun
- pokes fun
- poking fun
- pull one leg
- pull ones leg
- pulled leg
- pulled one leg
- pulled one's leg
- pulled ones leg
- pulling leg
- pulling one leg
- pulling ones leg
- pulls leg
- pulls one leg
- pulls one's leg
- pulls ones leg
• kid
- made sport of
- making sport of
- pre tend
- pre tending
- pre tends
- pre-tended
- pre-tending
- pre-tends
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convivial

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• animated

sprightly

• cordial

hearty

• flatter

• inveigle

• jocular

facetious

• jolly-boat

jolly boat

• joyous

joyous

• ridicule

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Independent
- Adjective
  amusing, cheery, entertaining, lovely, merry.
- Proper noun, singular
  Jolie.
- Adverb
  lovely, merry.
Other Related
- Adjective
  cheerful, enjoyable, happy, joyful, joyous.
- Adverb
  cheerful.

What are the hypernyms for Jolly?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
cheerful, contented, delighted, exuberant, glad, joyous, merry, upbeat, gay.

What are the hyponyms for Jolly?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for jolly (as nouns)
- event
  party.

What are the opposite words for jolly?

Jolly is an adjective that describes someone who is full of joy and cheerfulness. However, the English language offers multiple antonyms for the word jolly. Some of the antonyms include gloomy, melancholy, sad, depressed, unhappy, miserable, and despondent. These adjectives describe someone who is feeling low or down. Another antonym for jolly is serious, which describes someone who is focused and grave. Seriousness is usually not associated with cheerfulness and joy. Therefore, these antonyms paint a broader picture of the range of emotions people can experience, giving depth to language and communication.

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adj.
• laughing, joyful
- depressed
- disagreeable
- dull
- gloomy
- grave
- sad
- serious
- troubled
- unamusing
- unfunny
- unhappy
- unpleasant
- upset
- worried
• noun
- Dissatisfying
- Outraging
- Pleasureless
- Revulsive
- abhorrent
- abject
- abominable
- aggravating
- aggrieved
- annoying
- bilious
- boring
- commonplace
- crying
- deplorable
- detestable
- discontented
- disgruntled
- disgusting
- disheartened
- disheartening
- dispirited
- distressing
- disturbing
- exasperating
- flat
- forbidding
- ghastly
- god-awful
- groaning
- hateful
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- hellish
- horrid
- hostile
- incensing
- inflaming
- infuriating
- insipid
- intimidating
- irritating
- lachrymose
- lethargic
- listless
- maddening
- moaning
- moody
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- peeving
- perturbing
- regrettable
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- sluggish
- sobbing
- stale
- tedious
- torpid
- tragic
- upsetting
- vexing
- vile
- yucky
adv.
• noun
- immoderately
- negligibly
- nominally
- slightly
- unreasonably
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Usage examples for Jolly

Miranda remarked: 'I say, I'm jolly glad I've met you.

"The Furnace"

Rose Macaulay

I tried to jolly you out of feeling bad, both those times; but you know I understood.

"Lonesome Land"

B. M. Bower

Now we are jolly, jolly are we.

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Famous quotes with Jolly

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Arnold Bennett
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

David Bowie
It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

Georg Brandes
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Carlin
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Louise Jameson

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adj.

adv.

n.

v.

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