Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a jovial manner; merrily; gaily; with jollity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly.

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  • adverb In a jovial manner

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  • adverb in a jovial manner

Etymologies

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jovial +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Boyee, "he called jovially as Hal came back to his desk.

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • Alice took his arm, and they began to walk aimlessly through the rooms, though she tried to look as if they had a definite destination, keeping her eyes eager and her lips parted; -- people had called jovially to them from the distance, she meant to imply, and they were going to join these merry friends.

    Alice Adams 1921

  • Alice took his arm, and they began to walk aimlessly through the rooms, though she tried to look as if they had a definite destination, keeping her eyes eager and her lips parted; -- people had called jovially to them from the distance, she meant to imply, and they were going to join these merry friends.

    Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The men were calling jovially back and forth as they unharnessed tired horses that fell into attitudes of rest and crunched, in deep content, the grain given them.

    Freckles 1904

  • The men were calling jovially back and forth as they unharnessed tired horses that fell into attitudes of rest and crunched, in deep content, the grain given them.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • As the heavily loaded trains met or passed each other along the route the excited crowds called jovially to one another, "Suckers!

    Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

  • Also in the interview, Lee talks about his numerous Marvel-flick cameos, which he jovially assures us are not guaranteed in writing but rather won through painstaking effort on his part.

    Stan Lee Discusses the SPIDER-MAN Reboot – Collider.com 2010

  • Which is ok, but I like to be the last one seen onstage, he said jovially.

    New York Gives Opera Idol His Tsar Turn Pia Catton 2010

  • After Mattson's neuroscience talk, titled "Use It or Lose It," Austin Smith, a senior at Osborn Park High School in Manassas who was attending with his parents, talked jovially with his mother's colleague, Greg Steigerwald, about what qualifies as the "good" brain stress Mattson mentioned in his talk.

    Arlington's Cafe Scientifique draws crowds to discuss technical topics with experts 2011

  • Opposite the gangway, having jovially hailed the anchor - watch of the Lancashire Queen and asked the direction of the Scottish Chiefs, another wheat ship, he awkwardly capsized himself.

    THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN' 2010

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