What is the meaning of jolly?

noun

• A happy party.
• A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work.
  • synonyms: jolly boat

verb

• Be silly or tease one another.
  • usage: "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
  • synonyms: kid, chaff, josh, banter

adjective

• Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful

adverb

• To a moderately sufficient extent or degree.
  • usage: "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
  • synonyms: reasonably, moderately, pretty, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably