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jocularly

jocularly adverb: in a jocular manner; humorously.

Adverb

jocularly (comparative more jocularly, superlative most jocularly)

  1. In a jocular manner; humorously.
    • He was in such a good mood that he even managed to take out the rubbish jocularly.
    • She was not embarrassed at all so she told the story jocularly.

jocularly meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

jocularly in Tamil

கள்ளன், ஏகாதசி

jocularly in Urdu

مذاق میں

jocularly in Bengali

রসিকতার সাথে, হাস্যরসাত্মকভাবে

Examples of jocularly in a sentence

  • Sullenly, jocularly, resentfully, or derisively, names and addresses were extorted from the company, and each member given a jerk of the head to get out of this.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 160:
  • Owners and physicians also blurred the therapeutic line by referring jocularly to whipping as “medicine” for malingering slaves.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 46:

Synonyms of jocularly

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of jocularly

Forms of jocularly

comparativemore jocularly
superlativemost jocularly

Origin of jocularly

From jocular + -ly.

Questions about jocularly

What does jocularly mean?
Jocularly means in a jocular manner; humorously.
What is jocularly in Tamil?
Jocularly in Tamil is கள்ளன், ஏகாதசி. See Jocularly meaning in Tamil.
How do you use jocularly in a sentence?
Sullenly, jocularly, resentfully, or derisively, names and addresses were extorted from the company, and each member given a jerk of the head to get out of this.
What part of speech is jocularly?
Jocularly is an adverb.

Words near jocularly in the dictionary

  1. jocular
  2. jocularism
  3. jocularisms
  4. jocularities
  5. jocularity
  6. jocularly
  7. jocularness
  8. joculary
  9. joculator
  10. joculators
  11. joculatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jocularly (page history and authors); jocularly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jocularly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jocularly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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