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jovial 音标拼音: [dʒ'oviəl] a. 快活的,高兴的,愉快的,朱庇特的 快活的,高兴的,愉快的,朱庇特的 jovial adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [synonym: {gay}, {jocund}, {jolly}, {jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}] jovial \jo"vi*al\, a. [F., fr. L. Jovialis pertaining to Jove. The planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or jovial. See {Jove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. Sunny; serene. [Obs.] "The heavens always joviall." --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. [1913 Webster] Be bright and jovial among your guests. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Note: This word is a relic of the belief in planetary influence. Other examples are {saturnine}, {mercurial}, {martial}, {lunatic}, etc. Syn: Merry; joyous; gay; festive; mirthful; gleeful; jolly; hilarious. [1913 Webster] 42 Moby Thesaurus words for "jovial": affable, amiable, bantering, blithe, blithesome, boon, buxom, chaffing, convivial, facetious, festal, festive, free and easy, frivolous, gala, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, good-natured, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, hilarious, humorous, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jollying, joshing, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, lighthearted, merry, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, on the loose, rejoicing, risible, sociable produced by Jules I. Schwartz in 1959-1960. JOVIAL was based on {ALGOL 58}, with extensions for large scale {real-time} programming. It saw extensive use by the US Air Force. The data elements were items, entries ({records}) and tables. Versions include JOVIAL I ({IBM 709}, 1960), JOVIAL II ({IBM 7090}, 1961) and JOVIAL 3 (1965). Dialects: {J3}, {JOVIAL J73}, {JS}, {JTS}. Ada/Jovial Newsletter, Dale Lange 1 (513) 255-4472. [CACM 6(12):721, Dec 1960]. (1996-07-19)
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