joyous

  1. full of or characterized by joy

    Antonyms : joyless
    Examples :
    • felt a joyous abandon
    • joyous laughter

jain

  1. relating to or characteristic of Jainism

    Synonyms : jainist

juvenile

  1. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

    Synonyms : adolescent, jejune, puerile
    Examples :
    • their behavior was juvenile

  2. a young person, not fully developed

    Synonyms : juvenile person
    Antonyms : adult
    Type Of : mortal, individual, soul, person, somebody, someone

  3. of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people

    Examples :
    • juvenile diabetes
    • juvenile fashions

jeremiad

  1. a long and mournful complaint

    Type Of : complaint
    Examples :
    • a jeremiad against any form of government

jocularity

  1. fun characterized by humor

    Synonyms : jocosity
    Type Of : play, fun, sport

  2. a feeling facetious merriment

    Synonyms : jocundity
    Type Of : gaiety, merriment

  3. activity characterized by good humor

    Synonyms : jest, joke
    Type Of : diversion, recreation

jazz

  1. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

    Synonyms : idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind
    Type Of : talk, talking
    Examples :
    • don't give me any of that jazz

  2. have sexual intercourse with

    Synonyms : bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with
    Type Of : copulate, mate, pair, couple

  3. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

    Type Of : popular music genre, popular music

  4. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

    Type Of : dance music

  5. play something in the style of jazz

    Type Of : play, spiel

jettison

  1. throw as from an airplane

    Type Of : throw

  2. throw away, of something encumbering

    Type Of : cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, cast aside, toss out

jammed

  1. extremely crowed or filled to capacity

    Synonyms : jam-packed, packed
    Examples :
    • a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes

juries

  1. a committee appointed to judge a competition

    Synonyms : panel
    Type Of : committee, commission

  2. a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law

    Type Of : body

jewish

  1. of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

    Synonyms : judaic