Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Given to jokes and jesting; merry; waggish, as a person.
- Of the nature of a joke or jest; sportive; merry: as, a jocose remark; jocose or comical airs. Synonyms Jocose, Jocund, jocular, facetious, merry, waggish, witty, droll, humorous, funny. In jocose cheerfulness or light-heartedness is an accidental thing; in jocund it is the essential idea. The disposition to make good-humored jests is the essential thing in jocose, but is not necessarily implied in jocund.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
Etymologies
- From Latin iocōsus ("humorous"), from iocus ("jest, joke"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin iocōsus, from iocus, joke; see yek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Liszt, that amiable critic replied that the word "grotesque" had no place in piano playing -- that they should properly be called jocose, or something of that sort.”
“With the rabbi he maintained an armed truce which manifested itself in a kind of jocose teasing that occasionally developed an unpleasant edge.”
“Now this division is made according to the intention of the effect: for a "jocose" lie is told in order to make fun, an”
“Unfortunately, among many of our young people, the Bible seems to be a book to be avoided or to be treated in a rather "jocose" manner.”
“There is a kind of jocose or burlesque satire peculiar to Italy, in which the literature is extremely rich.”
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“So, he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry, and Miss La Creevy evinced no greater symptoms of displeasure than declaring, as she adjusted her yellow turban, that she had never heard of such a thing, and couldn't have believed it possible.”
“jocose" lie, or of usefulness, and then we have the "officious" lie, whereby it is intended to help another person, or to save him from being injured.”
“So, he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry, and Miss La Creevy evinced no greater symptoms of displeasure than declaring, as she adjusted her yellow turban, that she had never heard of such a thing, and couldn’t have believed it possible.”
“Mugridge, on the other hand, considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks.”
“I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition -- to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny!”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘jocose’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Familiar
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Interesting words
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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SAT Words
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abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Adjectives
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Ballardian
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J
letters starting with J
jabber, jaded, jargon, jaundiced, jaunt, jaunty, jeopardize, jettison, jibe, jocose, jocular, jocund and 8 more...
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Lolita
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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The Four Stages of Drunkenness
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jocose, lachrymose, bellicose, comatose, verbose, grandiose, morose, adipose, otiose
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autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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vocabulary
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Tweets
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wuwu4u The old man, who had put on his short sheepskin jacket, was just as good-humored, jocose, and free in his movements. Sep 13, 2007
slumry given to joking Jul 22, 2007