jocund

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/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

  1. 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.”

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Etymology

From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”). Doublet of jucund.

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