Jocular vs Joking - What's the difference?
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(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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(British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
* Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Jocular is a related term of joking.
As an adjective jocular
is (formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking.As a verb joking is
.As a noun joking is
the act of telling or engaging in jokes.jocular
English
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.
Synonyms
* (humorous) dismissive, jokey, unemotional, silly; see alsoAntonyms
* (humorous) heartfelt, serious, sincereDerived terms
* jocularly * jocularity * jocularnessExternal links
* * *joking
English
Verb
(head)- Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!
Noun
(en noun)- No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility