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joculous

joculous adjective: synonym of jocular.

Adjective

joculous (comparative more joculous, superlative most joculous)

  1. (rare) Synonym of jocular.
    • The readers should not imagine that the explanation of the growth of the Romanian population due to protein-rich food is some joculous fabrication. lt is written in an ethnographic publication […]1976, Romania: Pages of History, volume 1, numbers 3-4, page 294
    • And when the above account is framed in a joculous way, there is still a great deal of serious thought behind it.1978, Max K. Adler, Naming and Addressing: A Sociolinguistic Study
    Synonyms:
    jocular

Synonyms of joculous

Forms of joculous

comparativemore joculous
superlativemost joculous

Questions about joculous

What does joculous mean?
Joculous means synonym of jocular.
What part of speech is joculous?
Joculous is an adjective.

Words near joculous in the dictionary

  1. joculator
  2. joculators
  3. joculatory
  4. joculatrices
  5. joculatrix
  6. joculous
  7. jocuma
  8. jocund
  9. jocundest
  10. jocundities
  11. jocundity

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