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jolly noun
Meaning : A happy party.
Meaning : A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work.
Synonyms : jolly boat
jolly adjective
Meaning : Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.
Example :
When hearts were young and gay.
A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company.
The jolly crowd at the reunion.
Jolly old Saint Nick.
A jovial old gentleman.
Have a merry Christmas.
Peals of merry laughter.
A mirthful laugh.
Synonyms : gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful
jolly adverb
Meaning : To certain extent or degree.
Example :
Pretty big.
Pretty bad.
Jolly decent of him.
The shoes are priced reasonably.
He is fairly clever with computers.
Synonyms : fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat
To a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation.
His prices are unreasonably high.immoderately, unreasonably
