Englishjolly
adjective
a big, jolly woman |
he returned home in a jolly mood:
cheerful, happy, cheery, good-humoured, jovial, merry, sunny, bright, joyful, light-hearted, in high spirits, in good spirits, sparkling, bubbly, exuberant, effervescent, ebullient, breezy, airy, lively, vivacious, full of life, sprightly, jaunty;
glad, cock-a-hoop, gleeful;
smiling, grinning, laughing, mirthful, radiant;
happy-go-lucky, genial, carefree, unworried, untroubled, without a care in the world, full of the joys of spring, fun-loving, buoyant, optimistic, hopeful, positive;
informal chipper, chirpy, perky, smiley, upbeat, peppy, sparky, zippy, zingy, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of beans, full of vim and vigour;
North American, informal peart;
dated gay;
literary gladsome, jocund, joyous, jocose, blithe, blithesome;
archaic of good cheer, perk, as merry/lively as a grig;
rare Pickwickian.
▷antonyms miserable, gloomy.
adverb
British, informal
that's a jolly good idea:
very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely;
extraordinarily, extra, excessively, overly, over, abundantly, inordinately, singularly, significantly, distinctly, outstandingly, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, eminently, supremely, highly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly;
all that, to a great extent, most, so, too;
Scottish unco;
French très;
Northern English right;
informal terrifically, awfully, terribly, devilishly, madly, majorly, seriously, desperately, mega, ultra, oh-so, too-too, stinking, mucho, damn, damned, too … for words;
informal , dated devilish, hellish, frightfully;
British, informal ever so, well, bloody, dead, dirty, fair;
North American, informal real, mighty, powerful, awful, plumb, darned, way, bitching, mad;
South African, informal lekker;
archaic exceeding, sore.
jolly (1) Oxford Dictionary of English