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jolly

• (r) 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
  fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat,
• (s) 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
  jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful, gay,

Nouns

• (n) a happy party
• (n) a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work jolly boat,

Verbs

• (v) be silly or tease one another
  • After we relaxed, we just kidded around
  banter, chaff, josh, kid,

Synonyms

fairly middling moderately passably pretty reasonably somewhat banter chaff josh kid jocund jovial merry mirthful gay jolly boat

Antonyms

immoderately unreasonably

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