jolly

adv. very, extremely (Slang)

v. make happy, raise someone's spirits; joke, jest; please someone in order to take advantage of him

adj. merry, happy, mirthful, cheerful

n. pleasure, kicks, enjoyment; yawl that sailors use for general work; happy party, celebration (British usage); jollification (British usage)

Psychological viewsEarly theories Gautama Buddha discussed the role of the mind in the pursuit of happiness through the practice of the eightfold path. According to Buddha, "Mind is the forerunner of states of existence. Mind is chief, and (those states) are caused by the mind. If one speaks and acts with a pure mind, surely happiness will follow like one's own shadow!" In Buddhism, the third of the Four Noble Truths states "to eliminate suffering, eliminate craving", thus establishing happiness as beyond material and emotional possession and attainable only through an attentive practice leading to extinguishing of craving and aversion. According to Jainism, happiness and bliss is the natural state of the soul. A soul when liberated from all its karmas experiences infinite bliss, knowledge and perception.
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Noun
1. a happy party
(hypernym) party
(derivation) kid, chaff, josh, banter
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
(synonym) jolly boat
(hypernym) yawl
Verb
1. be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
(synonym) kid, chaff, josh, banter
(hypernym) tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
Adjective
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, jovial, merry, mirthful
(similar) joyous
Adverb
1. used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"
(synonym) pretty
(classification) colloquialism
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

n. joker, one of two extra playing cards in a deck of cards

(superl.)
Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.
  

(superl.)
Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
  

(superl.)
Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.