jocund
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 6
/ˈd͡ʒɒkənd/(UK)
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/ˈd͡ʒɒkənd/(UK) · /ˈd͡ʒəʊkənd/(UK) · /ˈd͡ʒɑkənd/(US) · /ˈd͡ʒoʊkənd/(US)
Definition of jocund
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
“Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops.”
“Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?”
“There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […]”
“First in his train is jocund Health, Content, who o'er her distaff sings, And from the plough that honest Wealth Which scorns the tear-bought robe of kings.—”
“I was feeling blithe, almost jocund.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”). Doublet of jucund.
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