jocular• Moreover, once the cases were distributed to each member, the reactions were jocular.• To those ballads he added a substantial leavening of others that were complimentary, jocular, and satirical.• At the turn of a switch, an emotional tirade could become jocular chit-chat.• His attention and trust gave her jocular ease with men and what acceptance she had of her own forceful character.• I was appalled to hear his jovial, jocular style.• a jocular tone