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jolly
Synonyms and Antonyms of jolly
- an especially jolly crowd of well-wishers at their wedding reception
amused, beaming, chuckling, giggling, smiling
bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, lighthearted, lightsome, upbeat
animated, bouncing, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious, zippy
blessed (also blest), blissful, delighted, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, gladsome, happy, high, joyful, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed, radiant, rapturous, ravished, thrilled, tickled
amusing, facetious, flippant, frolicsome, funny, hilarious, jesting, joking, joshing, playful, sportive, witty
cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, unconcerned
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
antic, comic, comical, farcical, humorous, riotous, sidesplitting, uproarious
abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, glum, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, low-spirited, melancholy, sad, saddened, sorrowful, unhappy
crying, groaning, moaning, sobbing, wailing, weeping
discontented, disgruntled, moody
doleful, dolorous, joyless, lachrymose, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorry, woeful
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
- we always have a jolly time at their seaside cottage
agreeable, blessed (also blest), congenial, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, delightsome, dreamy, dulcet, enjoyable, felicitous, good, grateful, gratifying, heavenly, luscious, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pretty, satisfying, savory (also savoury), sweet, tasty, welcome
alluring, attractive, desirable, enviable, inviting, relishable, tempting
charming, enchanting, fascinating
amusing, diverting, entertaining, recreative
affable, amiable, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, gemütlich, genial, goodly, good-natured, gracious, hospitable, kindly, personable
blissful, felicific, glad, happy, joyous
abominable, ghastly, god-awful, hellish, horrid, miserable, wretched
bilious, disgusting, distasteful, obnoxious, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revulsive, unsavory, vile, yucky (also yukky)
abhorrent, detestable, hateful, odious
boring, commonplace, dull, flat, insipid, irksome, stale, tedious
depressing, disheartening, dismal, dreary, gloomy, heartbreaking, heartrending, joyless, lachrymose, sad, unhappy
deplorable, doleful, dolorous, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, regrettable, sorrowful, tragic (also tragical)
aggravating, annoying, exasperating, irritating, peeving, perturbing, vexing
angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming (also enflaming), infuriating, maddening, outraging, rankling, riling
Synonym Discussion of jolly
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- a merry group of revelers
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- arrived late in his usual blithe way
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- singing, dancing, and jocund feasting
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- dinner put them in a jovial mood
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- our jolly host enlivened the party
jolly
Synonyms and Antonyms of jolly
- I jolly well agree that you did the right thing
- has become a jolly careful driver since his recent accident
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly
exceptionally, notably, remarkably
considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially
appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly
astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally
jolly
Synonyms and Antonyms of jolly
- spent their nights around the campfire good-naturedly jollying and telling scary stories
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