Jocund vs Cheerful - What's the difference?
jocund | cheerful |
Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
* (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes
* (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
* (rfdate) William Wordsworth
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
As adjectives the difference between jocund and cheerful
is that jocund is jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness while cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic.jocund
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
