jocularly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a jocular manner; humorously.
Example Sentences
- "He was in such a good mood that he even managed to take out the rubbish jocularly."
- "She was not embarrassed at all so she told the story jocularly."
- "Sullenly, jocularly, resentfully, or derisively, names and addresses were extorted from the company, and each member given a jerk of the head to get out of this."
- "Owners and physicians also blurred the therapeutic line by referring jocularly to whipping as “medicine” for malingering slaves. One complaining woman was “treated with a cowskin or hickory switch to scourge her”; other doctors recommended that an owner apply “9 drops of essence of rawhide” or “oil of hickory” to the back of a sick slave."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more jocularly (comparative)
most jocularly (superlative)
Synonyms
Antonyms
seriously
straight-lacedly