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jovial 音標拼音: [dʒ'oviəl] a. 快活的,高興的,愉快的,朱庇特的 快活的,高興的,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 (Jule's Own Version of IAL) A version of {IAL}
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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