Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to joking; merry.
- adjective Characterized by joking; humorous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective given to
jest ; habituallyjolly - adjective
playful ; characterized byjoking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by jokes and good humor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word jocose.
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.
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry Kemelman, Harry 1966
-
Now this division is made according to the intention of the effect: for a "jocose" lie is told in order to make fun, an
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
-
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.
Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888
-
There is a kind of jocose or burlesque satire peculiar to Italy, in which the literature is extremely rich.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
-
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.
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
-
"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.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
-
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.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
-
Mugridge, on the other hand, considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks.
Chapter 6 2010
-
'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!
Lance Mannion: 2009
slumry commented on the word jocose
given to joking
July 23, 2007
wuwu4u commented on the word jocose
The old man, who had put on his short sheepskin jacket, was just as good-humored, jocose, and free in his movements.
September 13, 2007