Usually means: Cheerful, good-humored, and friendly.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. jovial: Merriam-Webster
  2. jovial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jovial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jovial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jovial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jovial, jovial: Wordnik
  7. jovial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jovial, jovial: Wiktionary
  9. jovial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jovial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jovial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. JOVIAL: Dictionary.com
  13. jovial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jovial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. JOVIAL (programming language), JOVIAL, Jovial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jovial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jovial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jovial: Rhymezone
  19. Jovial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jovial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. jovial: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. jovial: FreeDictionary.org
  23. jovial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. jovial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Jovial: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. jovial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jovial: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOVIAL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Jovial, Jovial: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  3. JOVIAL: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOVIAL: Acronym Finder
  2. jovial: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jovial: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See joviality as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jovial)

▸ adjective:  (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
▸ adjective:  (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
▸ adjective:  (astronomy, obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
▸ adjective:  (Roman mythology, obsolete) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.
▸ noun:  (chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Jupiter; a Jovian.

Similar:
jocund, merry, jolly, joyous, mirthful, gay, joviall, jollysome, jollisome, jocose, more...

Opposite:
sullen, morose, glum, dour, gloomy

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basic jovial, jovial programming language, jovial refrain, most jovial, opposite of jovial, more...

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Similar:
jocund, merry, jolly, joyous, mirthful, gay, joviall, jollysome, jollisome, jocose, more...

Opposite:
sullen, morose, glum, dour, gloomy

Phrases:
basic jovial, jovial programming language, jovial refrain, most jovial, opposite of jovial, more...

Colors:
    yellow,     orange,     sky blue,     lime green,     coral, more...



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