jollyadjective
uk/ˈdʒɒl.i/us/ˈdʒɑː.li/jolly adjective (HAPPY)
happy and smiling:
a jolly smile/manner/mood
She's a very jolly, upbeat sort of a person.
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- swoon
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jolly adjective (ENJOYABLE)
old-fashioned enjoyable, energetic, and entertaining:
a jolly occasion
We spent a very jolly evening together, chatting and reminiscing.
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Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- all things to all people idiom
- attractive
- banging
- be better than sex idiom
- brighten
- delicacy
- do sb the world of good idiom
- dreamy
- ducky
- enchant
- engaging
- keep on the right side of sb idiom
- keep sb sweet idiom
- knock
- leafy
- lighten
- lovely
- quench
- tickle
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jolly adjective (ATTRACTIVE)
mainly UK bright and attractive:
I love the bright yellow you've painted the children's room - it makes it look really jolly.
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Attractive
- a sight for sore eyes idiom
- adorable
- aesthetic
- alluring
- angelic
- disarm
- distinguished
- dreamy
- easy
- elegant
- noble
- not be just a pretty face idiom
- ornamental
- photogenic
- photograph
- voluptuous
- well built
- winning
- winsome
- zaftig
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Idiom(s)
jolly hockey sticks
jollyadverb
uk/ˈdʒɒl.i/us/ˈdʒɑː.li/UK old-fashioned informalvery:
That's a jolly nice scarf you're wearing.
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- deadly
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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Idiom(s)
jolly good
jolly good show!
jollyverb [ T + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈdʒɒl.i/us/ˈdʒɑː.li/informalto encourage someone to do something by putting that person in a good mood and persuading them gently:
I'll try to jolly my parents into letting me borrow the car this weekend.
She didn't really want to go to the party, so we had to jolly her along a little.
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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Phrasal verb(s)
jolly sth up