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Meaning of jolly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  jolly
      adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
             big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
             priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
             [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {pretty}, {jolly},
             {somewhat}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant:
             {immoderately}, {unreasonably}]
      adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
             were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
             such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
             the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
             gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
             laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: {gay}, {jocund},
             {jolly}, {jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}]
      n 1: a happy party
      2: a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work [syn: {jolly
         boat}, {jolly}]
      v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
           kidded around" [syn: {kid}, {chaff}, {jolly}, {josh},
           {banter}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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