Definition of Jocular. Meaning of Jocular. Synonyms of Jocular

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Definition of Jocular

Jocular
Jocular Joc"u*lar, a. [L. jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See Joke.] 1. Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular exploits.' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden.

Meaning of Jocular from wikipedia

- A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant...
- their policies if put in power. This was disputed by Garrett as a "short jocular conversation". Garrett was comfortably re-elected for Kingsford Smith in...
- unknown, though the earliest recorded use is 1725 as "Welsh rabbit", a jocular name as the dish contains no rabbit; the earliest do****ented use of "Welsh...
- Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects", where objects that cause problems (like...
- ball. A particularly bad shot, or one that only hits the backboard, is jocularly called a brick. The hang time is the length of time a player stays in...
- Beethoven maintains a playful jocularity throughout much of the piece, but as in many of his early works, the jocular style can be heard as a facade...
- Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being presented or the...
- Oxford English Dictionary. In any case, the phrase can be interpreted as a jocular expression of the correct insight that a single counterexample, while sufficient...
- Cartoon physics or animation physics are terms for a jocular system of laws of physics (and biology) that su****des the normal laws, used in animation...
- not used in any human language as a building block of words, apart from jocular exceptions such as the name of the comic-book character Joe Btfsplk. However...