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adjective

jovial adj.

(capitalized) Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. (Obs.) "Our jovial star reigned at his birth." "The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets."

Sunny; serene. (Obs.) "The heavens always joviall."

Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. "Be bright and jovial among your guests." "His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian." Note: This word is a relic of the belief in planetary influence. Other examples are saturnine, mercurial, martial, lunatic, etc.

Synonyms: Merry; joyous; gay; festive; mirthful; gleeful; jolly; hilarious.

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"Jovial" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hygeia well can witness; she who saves, From poisonous dates and cups of pleasing bane, The wretch, devoted to the entangling snares Of Bacchus and of Comus. Him she leads To Cynthia's lonely haunts. To spread the toils, To beat the coverts, with the jovial horn At dawn of day to summon the loud hounds, She calls the lingering sluggard from his dreams, And where his breast may drink the mountain breeze, 180 And where the fervour of the sunny vale May beat ...

— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... me, if I cannot agree with you," said Mr. Henniker, a well-known Dublin barrister, of burly frame and jovial countenance, famed for his ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... the cozy and began pouring the tea. Lucina took a napkin, being so bidden, spread it daintily over her lap, and tucked a corner in her neck. The feast was about to commence, when a loud, jovial voice was heard in the direction of ...

— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... learning to run so fast I have employed in learning something useful. It would not only be useless in me to run like a Choctaw, but foolish and disgraceful." But one may well suppose, that, if the jovial divine had kept himself in training for this disgraceful lost art of running, his diary might not have recorded the habit of lying two hours in bed in the morning, "dawdling and doubting," as he says, or the fact of his having "passed the whole day in an unpleasant state ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various

... appeared the master of the house, red and jovial, solicitous for his guest's comfort, and prodigal of suggestions for his ease and entertainment. Not until Rand was well and gone from Fontenoy would Colonel Dick let his mind rest upon the indubitable fact that here had been an upstart and an enemy. Hard upon the Colonel's ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

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