Positive personality trait
Jovial
Warmly cheerful and sociable.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Greets people with a hearty laugh and a joke, including people they have only just met.
- Keeps a table or a gathering talking and laughing together.
- Makes a newcomer feel like a regular within a few minutes.
Fits when someone has a hearty, sociable cheerfulness
Not when the warmth is quiet, delicate, or appropriate to a solemn setting
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: it is a literary word for a hearty manner, and it would sound odd on a resume. It suits a toast, a eulogy or a story; at work, a reference can say "warm and sociable" and give the example.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] has a jovial, welcoming manner that people remember: at [the counter, the front desk or our events], regulars asked for them by name, and new visitors were soon chatting like old friends.
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Report card comment [Name] greets classmates and staff with a warm smile and a joke every morning, and brightens the room.
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In a story, shown not told He met every guest at the door with a booming hello and a hand on the shoulder. By the time the soup came around, the two strangers at the end of the table were trading stories and laughing.
The jovial baker greeted each early customer with a booming rhyme.
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