Delightful vs Jocular - What's the difference?
delightful | jocular | Related terms |
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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Delightful is a related term of jocular.
As adjectives the difference between delightful and jocular
is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while jocular is (formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking.delightful
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Alternative forms
* delightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)jocular
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was in a jocular mood all day.
- All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
- From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular .
- Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
- Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.
