Usually means: Very well indeed; emphatically so.
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  1. jolly well: Merriam-Webster
  2. jolly well: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jolly well: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. jolly well: Wiktionary
  5. jolly well: Dictionary.com
  6. jolly well: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adverb:  (UK, dated, emphatic, sometimes humorous) Certainly, very well.

Similar:
jollily, great, very well, jovially, right enough, joltily, goodly, selly, swingingly, damn well, more...

Opposite:
miserable, unhappy, sad, gloomy, depressed

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Similar:
jollily, great, very well, jovially, right enough, joltily, goodly, selly, swingingly, damn well, more...

Opposite:
miserable, unhappy, sad, gloomy, depressed



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