Sardonic vs Jocular - What's the difference?
sardonic | jocular |
Scornfully mocking or cynical.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Burke
Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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As adjectives the difference between sardonic and jocular
is that sardonic is scornfully mocking or cynical while jocular is humorous, amusing or joking.sardonic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.
- strained, sardonic smiles
- the scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian
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.
