jolly

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a happy party
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
party
2. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
• Syn:
jolly boat
• Hypernyms:
yawl

II - verb

be silly or tease one another
- After we relaxed, we just kidded around
• Syn:
kid, chaff, josh, banter
• Derivationally related forms:
banter (for: banter)
• Hypernyms:
tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize,
tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: chaff)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: kid)

III - adjective

full of or showing high-spirited merriment (Freq. 2)
- when hearts were young and gay
- "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth
- the jolly crowd at the reunion
- jolly old Saint Nick
- a jovial old gentleman
- have a merry Christmas
- peals of merry laughter
- a mirthful laugh
• Syn:
gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful
• Similar to:
joyous
• Derivationally related forms:
mirthfulness (for: mirthful), merriness (for: merry), joviality (for: jovial), jolliness, jollity, jocundity (for: jocund)

IV - adverb

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
- pretty big
- pretty bad
- jolly decent of him
- the shoes are priced reasonably
- he is fairly clever with computers
• Syn:
reasonably, moderately, pretty, somewhat, fairly,
middling, passably
• Ant:
immoderately (for: moderately), unreasonably (for: reasonably)
• Derived from adjective:
moderate (for: moderately), reasonable (for: reasonably)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful, reasonably, moderately, pretty, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably, jolly boat, kid, chaff, josh, banter
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  unreasonably, immoderately