ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsJ–Kjocular
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jocular
Meaning: fond of joking, playfully humorous
jocular in a sentence
How jocular is used in real sentences:
Even during the meeting, his jocular remarks made everyone laugh.
Despite the tense negotiations, the ambassador kept a jocular manner, cracking jokes to ease the room.
“His jocular remarks about ants issuing traffic tickets kept the crew laughing, although the humor faded when hundreds of workers began carrying larvae away from the bridge.”
— from the passage The Tremor Above
“He met every missed entrance with a jocular remark, but Mara could not tell whether his jokes encouraged the cast or concealed alarm.”
— from the passage The Chair at Center Stage
“Lena Ortiz, normally urbane with donors and jocular with students, paired polished ease with gentle jokes.”
— from the passage The Patient Burn
Synonyms for jocular
Other words for jocular — playful, witty and facetious — carry the same meaning.
- playful
- witty
- facetious
Antonyms of jocular
Words that mean the opposite of jocular:
Where it comes from
From Latin jocularis 'of jokes'
Memory hook
JOCULAR sounds like 'joke-you-lar' — always cracking a joke.