joculous

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English

Adjective

joculous (comparative more joculous, superlative most joculous)

  1. (rare) Synonym of jocular
    • 1976, Romania: Pages of History (volume 1, issues 3-4, page 294)
      The readers should not imagine that the explanation of the growth of the Romanian population due to protein-rich food is some joculous fabrication. lt is written in an ethnographic publication []
    • 1978, Max K. Adler, Naming and Addressing: A Sociolinguistic Study
      And when the above account is framed in a joculous way, there is still a great deal of serious thought behind it.