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# jovial

«jovial» in Mova's school dictionary: **cheerful, friendly and merry in mood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more jovial, most jovial)

### meaning for a pupil

Jovial means cheerful, friendly and merry in mood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jovial/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a jovial person is a happy, laughing character, often a kind host or a king

### examples

- The jovial old man told funny jokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jovial/#x1)
- The king moved with jovial impatience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jovial/#x2)
- After the feast everyone was in a jovial mood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jovial/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jovial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jovial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.