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Definition of jollity in English: jollitynounPlural jollities ˈdʒɒlɪtiˈdʒɑlədi mass noun1Lively and cheerful activity or celebration. 欢闹，欢乐；欢庆 a night of riotous jollity 一夜的狂欢。 Example sentencesExamples - The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart.
- Not that a Brown premiership would be a thing of great mirth and jollity, even though marriage and fatherhood have certainly mellowed the Chancellor.
- All the season's jollity exacerbates feelings of loneliness, but Mr McEwan will tuck into his Christmas Day lunch knowing he has many friends - the best gift of all.
- The grand euro-persuasion campaign, complete with unspecified roadshows and jollities no doubt such as further Blair / Brown double-acts, could now begin.
- I timed the auction to end on the evening of Christmas Day, reckoning to catch those folks who will by then have retired to their computer to get away from the festivities and the family jollity.
- The tone of the card is often one of jollity and fun with the sender trying to excuse their laziness with witty remarks and the message that instead of sending cards, they'll be donating the money to charity.
- Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
- Time has been kind to this most English of bands, their jollity is as lively as ever, their humour hasn't faded and their charm is as infectious as ever.
- Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity.
- Pearl was just a great, echoing, empty marble hall with a menu, which was the sort of list you might expect to be offered at Peter Mandelson's wake, but without that general sense of high-spirited glee and jollity.
- Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity.
- Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise.
- He told me he'd been on a film with an ill-behaved star who - to lighten the mood, or in a transport of jollity - took to dancing, in combat boots, on the roof of the propmaster's brand-new Mercedes.
- Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity.
- All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness.
- What's more, Manager Thomas Kuwatsch has declared that those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning should stay at home until they cheer up, Ananova reports.
- Looking at her in surprise, he laughed and for a while, both of them beamed at each other, chortling with jollity, seeming like the carefree children they once were.
- Anyone with fond memories of fluke jollities such as National Express and Something for the Weekend will be flummoxed by Absent Friends's Jacques Brelian melodrama.
- Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
- Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place?
Synonyms high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance - 1.1 The quality of being cheerful.
高兴，快乐 he was full of false jollity 他佯作快乐。 Example sentencesExamples - Organisers have received an email from Germany, whose people are renowned for its sense of humour, revealing the international face of the jollity jamboree.
- What is so effective about the film is the disarming jollity with which it knocks over the genre.
- So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity.
- It contains not one moment of jollity, humour, or that respect for the audience that had paid for their inclusion.
- Doesn't the false jollity on offer simply make you want to retch?
- But his contrived jollity is driving me up the wall.
- In the animated chatter, the cracker-pulling and the jollity of a large party, people pay little attention to what's in their glasses.
- He put so much dark jollity in them that they may continue spreading his Christmas spirit for generations.
- Their buoyant philosophy has been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity without coarseness."
- The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity.
- In 1762, he described Christmas as "The day of greatest mirth and jollity."
- Their recreation has none of the free-form jollity that characterises the folk tradition.
- Part of the problem is the decision to make The Man with Red Eyes a jocular sort of villain; instead of becoming more sinister in his false jollity, however, he becomes less so.
- The falser the jollity, the more merciless the banter.
- Even though the outing was begun and carried out with high spirits and a fair amount of jollity, we were both of us very glad indeed to tumble back into the car, turn the heater up full, and drive home as fast as we could.
Synonyms vitality, vigour, energy, vivacity, liveliness, life, animation, sparkle, effervescence, exuberance, verve, spiritedness, spirit, enthusiasm, dynamism, fire, ardour, zeal, push, drive
OriginMiddle English: from Old French jolite, from joli (see jolly1). Rhymesequality, frivolity, polity, quality Definition of jollity in US English: jollitynounˈdʒɑlədiˈjälədē 1Lively and cheerful activity or celebration. 欢闹，欢乐；欢庆 a night of riotous jollity 一夜的狂欢。 Example sentencesExamples - All the season's jollity exacerbates feelings of loneliness, but Mr McEwan will tuck into his Christmas Day lunch knowing he has many friends - the best gift of all.
- The grand euro-persuasion campaign, complete with unspecified roadshows and jollities no doubt such as further Blair / Brown double-acts, could now begin.
- All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness.
- What's more, Manager Thomas Kuwatsch has declared that those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning should stay at home until they cheer up, Ananova reports.
- Not that a Brown premiership would be a thing of great mirth and jollity, even though marriage and fatherhood have certainly mellowed the Chancellor.
- Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity.
- Looking at her in surprise, he laughed and for a while, both of them beamed at each other, chortling with jollity, seeming like the carefree children they once were.
- The tone of the card is often one of jollity and fun with the sender trying to excuse their laziness with witty remarks and the message that instead of sending cards, they'll be donating the money to charity.
- Anyone with fond memories of fluke jollities such as National Express and Something for the Weekend will be flummoxed by Absent Friends's Jacques Brelian melodrama.
- Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place?
- Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise.
- Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
- He told me he'd been on a film with an ill-behaved star who - to lighten the mood, or in a transport of jollity - took to dancing, in combat boots, on the roof of the propmaster's brand-new Mercedes.
- Pearl was just a great, echoing, empty marble hall with a menu, which was the sort of list you might expect to be offered at Peter Mandelson's wake, but without that general sense of high-spirited glee and jollity.
- I timed the auction to end on the evening of Christmas Day, reckoning to catch those folks who will by then have retired to their computer to get away from the festivities and the family jollity.
- The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart.
- Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity.
- Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity.
- Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
- Time has been kind to this most English of bands, their jollity is as lively as ever, their humour hasn't faded and their charm is as infectious as ever.
Synonyms high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance - 1.1 The quality of being cheerful.
高兴，快乐 he was full of false jollity 他佯作快乐。 Example sentencesExamples - Part of the problem is the decision to make The Man with Red Eyes a jocular sort of villain; instead of becoming more sinister in his false jollity, however, he becomes less so.
- What is so effective about the film is the disarming jollity with which it knocks over the genre.
- But his contrived jollity is driving me up the wall.
- The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity.
- It contains not one moment of jollity, humour, or that respect for the audience that had paid for their inclusion.
- Even though the outing was begun and carried out with high spirits and a fair amount of jollity, we were both of us very glad indeed to tumble back into the car, turn the heater up full, and drive home as fast as we could.
- So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity.
- In 1762, he described Christmas as "The day of greatest mirth and jollity."
- In the animated chatter, the cracker-pulling and the jollity of a large party, people pay little attention to what's in their glasses.
- Their buoyant philosophy has been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity without coarseness."
- The falser the jollity, the more merciless the banter.
- Their recreation has none of the free-form jollity that characterises the folk tradition.
- He put so much dark jollity in them that they may continue spreading his Christmas spirit for generations.
- Organisers have received an email from Germany, whose people are renowned for its sense of humour, revealing the international face of the jollity jamboree.
- Doesn't the false jollity on offer simply make you want to retch?
Synonyms vitality, vigour, energy, vivacity, liveliness, life, animation, sparkle, effervescence, exuberance, verve, spiritedness, spirit, enthusiasm, dynamism, fire, ardour, zeal, push, drive
OriginMiddle English: from Old French jolite, from joli (see jolly). |