jocose
/dʒəˈkəʊs
/adjective formal
Playful or humorous: a jocose allusion...
- July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
- Asked if he could afford a lawyer, he became jocose.
- He would have tried to persuade him in a very jocose way.
Derivatives
jocosely
- ‘He's not a concern,’ he said, adding jocosely ‘unless Diarmuid hits him a shoulder in training some night.’
- He said he had no idea it was taking place, an indicator he jocosely added, ‘I must be slowing down.’
jocoseness
/ noun ...- Bring It On's precise jocoseness leaves the viewer feeling that perhaps cheerleaders are people too.
jocosity
/ noun (plural jocosities) ...- But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity.
- ‘You too,’ Mic's voice was soft, all jocosity gone, and my breath caught.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin jocosus, from jocus (see joke).
Rhymes
- abstentious
- absterge
- abstergent
- absterse
- abstersion
- abstersive
- abstersiveness
- abstersory
- abstertion
- abstinence
- abstinence program
- abstinence programme
- abstinence symptom
- abstinence syndrome
- abstinency
- abstinent
- abstinential
- abstinently
- abstract
- abstractable
- abstract algebra
- abstract art
- abstract-concrete
- abstract/concrete
- abstracted