Joyful vs Jocular - What's the difference?
joyful | jocular |
(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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As adjectives the difference between joyful and jocular
is that joyful is feeling or causing joy while jocular is (formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking.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.