jovial

Borrowed from French jovial, from Italian gioviale, from Latin ioviālis, from Iovis (“Jove”), i.e. Jupiter, the planet which was thought by astrologers to bring jollity.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒoʊ.vɪ.əl/

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jovial (comparative more jovial, superlative most jovial)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
2. (obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
3. (astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
4. Merry; cheerful and good-humored.

   Antonym: saturnine

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”

• Jove
• Jovian

• jovial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• jovial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• jovial at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from Italian gioviale, from Latin ioviālis.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.vjal/

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• Homophones: joviale, joviales

jovial (feminine singular joviale, masculine plural joviaux, feminine plural joviales)

1. jovial, jolly

• “jovial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French jovial, from Italian gioviale, from Latin ioviālis.

• IPA^(key): /joˈviaːl/

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jovial

1. jovial

• jovial in Duden online

From German jovial, from Latin jovialis.

• IPA^(key): /ju.vi.aːl/, [jʊ.ʋɪ.ˈaːl]

jovial (neuter singular jovialt, definite singular and plural joviale)

1. jovial

“jovial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German jovial, from Latin jovialis.

• IPA^(key): /ju.vi.aːl/, [jʊ.ʋɪ.ˈaːl]

jovial (neuter singular jovialt, definite singular and plural joviale)

1. jovial

“jovial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin ioviālis.

jovial m or f (plural joviais, comparable)

1. jovial; merry, cheerful

From Latin ioviālis.

• IPA^(key): /xoˈbjal/, [xoˈβjal]

jovial (plural joviales)

1. Jovian
2. cheerful, jovial

• jovialidad
• jovialmente

• “jovial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.