Emotions

Synonyms for jovial

Synonyms for jovial: jocund and convivial. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for jovial

Interchangeable with jovial in this sense

Audited under jovial's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one jovial carries in that sense.

jocundadjective, in the sense "cheerful and friendly"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name jovial as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

convivialconvivial is an adjective in the sense "friendly, lively, and favorable to good company"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under jovial and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitEmotions

cheerful and friendly

The jovial host greeted every guest with a hearty laugh and a handshake.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

jocund

Same sentence, swapped: The jocund host greeted every guest with a hearty laugh and a handshake.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for jovial in the sentence quoted.

busy
formal
anxious

Where jovial turns up in the game

jovial is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where jovial is the trap

rotundadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is portly, in the sense "round and plump in body shape", so jovial is there to be ruled out.

Play jovial

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jovial reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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impassiveadjectivestolidhaving or revealing little emotion or sensibilitySummit irascibleadjectivecholericcharacterized by angerSummit irritableadjectivecholericeasily annoyed or angeredSummitHas a reason line forlornadjectivedejectedpitifully sad and lonely, as if abandonedTreelineHas a reason line frenziedadjectivemanicaffected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reasonRidgeline fretverbworryto be constantly or visibly anxious about somethingFoothillsHas a reason line colloquialadjectivedemoticcharacteristic of informal, ordinary conversation rather than formal speechSummitHas a reason line commiserateverbcondoleto express sympathy or share sorrow with someone over their loss or misfortuneSummitHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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