Adjective

(en adjective)

Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.

He was in a jocular mood all day.

All we had was a short and jocular conversation.

* 1865 , , chapter IV:

From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular .

* 1896 , , chapter 15:

Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.

* 1910 , :

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.