Jolly

//ˈd͡ʒɒli//

Synonyms for "jolly" (239 found)

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Closest matches (48)

kid mirthful addled animated appease banter beery bemused besotted blandish blarney blind drunk blithe blithesome bluejacket boat boon boot bully butter

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butter up buxom cadet cajole canoe carouse celebrate chaff cheerful cheery coax coltish convivial crapulent crapulous cruiser

Adverb(6 words)

a bit above a bit awfully badly beyond boots

Verb(5 words)

banter blandander brush up to chaff collogue

Adjective(1 words)

cheerful

Strong matches (72)

cut loose debauch deceive deride dizzy drenched drunk drunken effervescent exuberant facetious far gone far-gone ferry festal festive flustered fool fou free and easy

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Adverb(4 words)

damn extremely indecently jesusly

Adverb(1 words)

fairly

Noun(1 words)

fam trip

Verb(4 words)

flatter flatterize glaver gloze

Adjective(1 words)

gay

Related words (119)

Adjective(1 words)

jocund

Adjective(4 words)

jocund jovial merry mirthful

Noun(2 words)

joey jolly boat

joke jollify jolly boat josh jovial joyful joyous jubilant kid along lark laughter-loving lay it on leatherneck let go let loose let off steam light lighthearted lively make merry

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Verb(11 words)

josh kid lay it on thick make fair weather palaver preen puff soothe speak well of stroke tickle the ear

Adverb(6 words)

middling moderately passably pretty reasonably somewhat

Adverb(9 words)

mightily murrain positively simply the house down very very much wicked wickedly

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9 relation types

More general

13 entries

bait cod party rag rally razz ride tantalise tantalize taunt tease twit yawl

Synonyms

4 entries

jolly boat kid mirthful moderately

derived

22 entries

Jolly Nose Jolly Roger Jolly balance brown jolly jollification jollify jollily jolliment jolliness jollisome jollity jolly D jolly along jolly boat jolly boy

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derived from

1 entries

yule

etymologically related_to

4 entries

hasty hussy joy tardy

has context

3 entries

british slang united kingdom

is a

1 entries

party

related to

12 entries

amuse divert english excursion extremely jovial marine merriment navy pleasure trip very

similar

1 entries

joyous

Translations

4 translations across 2 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

развеселявам verb (To amuse or divert)

Czech

3 entries

bavit verb (To amuse or divert)
dělat si legraci verb (To amuse or divert)
škádlit verb (To amuse or divert)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

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The weather's rather jolly today.

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She was jolly well made to pay.

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You're a jolly good feller.

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Be joyful and merry for it's the jolly season.

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