Meaning & use
Jocular
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Fond of joking; playful or humorous in manner or tone.
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His jocular remarks kept the meeting from feeling too tense.
She had a jocular way of teasing her younger siblings.
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"Jocular" comes from the Latin "jocus," meaning joke, the same root that gives us "joke" and "jocose."
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