Jocular vs Zany - What's the difference?
jocular | zany |
(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
* 1865 , , chapter IV:
* 1896 , , chapter 15:
* 1910 , :
unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish
ludicrously or incongruously comical
(obsolete) A fool or clown. Especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown
* John Donne
* Alexander Pope
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
As adjectives the difference between jocular and zany
is that jocular is (formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking while zany is unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.As a noun zany is
(obsolete) a fool or clown especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.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
* * *zany
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* wackyDerived terms
* zaninessNoun
(zanies)- Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany .
- Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.
- So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.