jollify

Other forms of jollify

past tense or participle

jollified

present participle

jollifying·

third person

jollifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jollify

What does jollify mean?

jollify means "celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities".

How many syllables are in jollify?

jollify has 3 syllables and divides as jol-li-fy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jollify?

Close synonyms include revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jollify a common word?

jollify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.