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Brisk vs Jocund - What's the difference?

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Brisk is a related term of jocund.


As adjectives the difference between brisk and jocund

is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while jocund is jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

As a verb brisk

is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

brisk

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
  • Stimulating or invigorating.
    • This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
  • Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

    See also

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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    jocund

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
  • * (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes
    • There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund , that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.
  • * (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    • Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
  • * (rfdate) William Wordsworth
    • a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

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