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Jovial vs Frolicking - What's the difference?

jovial | frolicking | Related terms |

Jovial is a related term of frolicking.


As an adjective jovial

is (obsolete) pertaining to jove or zeus; jovian.

As a verb frolicking is

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As a noun frolicking is

the act of one who frolics.

jovial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
  • (astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
  • Merry; cheerful and good-humored.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial —thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

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    * Jove * Jovian

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    frolicking

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who frolics.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings , and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.