Word Meanings - JOCOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
Additional info about word: JOCOSE
Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn. -- Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish; sportive; funny; comical. -- Jo*cose"ly, adv. -- Jo*cose"ness, n. Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity. Broome. He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life. Buckle.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JOCOSE)
- Facetious
- Witty
- funny
- humorous
- jocular
- waggish
- playful
- droll
- jocose
- Funny
- Sportive
- comical
- laughable
- ridiculous
- ludicrous
- diverting
- Jocose
- facetious
- acute
Related words: (words related to JOCOSE)
- COMICAL
1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous; - DROLLIST
A droll. Glanvill. - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - JOCOSE
Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn. - DROLLISH
Somewhat droll. Sterne. - LAUGHABLE
Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv. - ACUTE
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp- - WITTY
1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, - HUMOROUSLY
1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily. - DIVERTING
Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n. - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - DIVERTISSEMENT
A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart. - DIVERTIMENTO
) A light and pleasing composition. - JOCULARITY
Jesting; merriment. - COMICALITY
The quality of being comical; something comical. - RIDICULOUS
1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the - DIVERTISE
To divert; to entertain. Dryden. - DIVERTICLE
A diverticulum. (more info) 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. Hales. - ACUTENESS
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. - DIVERTIVE
Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers. - INDIVERTIBLE
Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb. - PERACUTE
Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey. - DROLL
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. - DIVERT
turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that - GEROCOMICAL
Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.