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unjolly

unjolly adjective: not jolly; glum.

Adjective

unjolly (comparative more unjolly, superlative most unjolly)

  1. Not jolly; glum.
    • The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero.2008 April 10, Brooks Barnes, “What’s Big and Green, and Desperate to Be a Hit All Over?”, in New York Times

Forms of unjolly

comparativemore unjolly
superlativemost unjolly

Origin of unjolly

From un- + jolly.

Questions about unjolly

What does unjolly mean?
Unjolly means not jolly; glum.
What part of speech is unjolly?
Unjolly is an adjective.

Words near unjolly in the dictionary

  1. unjointing
  2. unjoints
  3. unjointured
  4. unjoking
  5. unjokingly
  6. unjolly
  7. unjolted
  8. unjostled
  9. unjostling
  10. unjournalistic
  11. unjournalistically

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